No. 24

I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your Despatch No. 44
of the 18th March in reply to my Predecessor's Despatch No. 21 of the
16th November 1866 addressed to Governor Kennedy desiring further
information as to the circumstances under which certain public monies had
been expended without Legislative sanction.

It is to be regretted that the state of the Public Accounts in
Vancouver Island should have compelled you to defer to another Session
the introduction of a Bill of Indemnity in the Legislative Council.