Trevelyan to Merivale (Permanent Under-Secretary)

With reference to your letter of the 10th
Inst;

I am directed by the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's
Treasury to acquaint you, for the information of Sir E.B. Lytton, that My Lords have informed the Commissioners of
Audit that, although no Legislative Council has been created
in British Columbia, Their Lordships are of opinion that the
Forms of Authorities from the Governor to the Treasurer, for
the issue of Money and for defraying Expenditure, together
with such other Forms as the Commissioners may consider
available under the present circumstances of the Colony,
beyond the Instructions herewith transmitted, should be
sent out for adoption by the Governor as soon as the state
of the financial arrangements may admit.