No. 25

In another despatch of equal date I have transmitted to you an
Order of Her Majesty in Council leaving to its operation an Act passed
by the Legislature of Vancouver Island in December last entitled "An Act
to impose certain Stamp duties on Writings and Deeds."

Having consulted the Lords Commissoners of the Treasury on the
subject of this Act their Lordships have observed that though there is
no objection to it there is a clerical omission in the 17th clause which
they suggest might be repaired by the introduction of the
words which
are placed opposite to the text in the subjoined extract from the Act.