Referring to Your Lordship's Despatch N 32, of the
25 March
last and its enclosures, I now have the honor to forward the
San
Juan Island Military Accounts and Vouchers for the year ended
31 December, 1869. A further Statement for the first Quarter
of
1870 will be forwarded when
the the Audit of those accounts has
been completed.
2. I am informed by the Auditor that the
San Juan Account has
been always heretofore sent as a yearly statement from 1
January to 31 December; and has been furnished within the
period allowed by the Regulations. It is not clear from
M
Lushington's Letter to the Secretary of
the Treasury whether or
not the
Admiralty desire that this arrangement should be changed
and the Annual
Accounts Accounts made up from the
31 March to the
same date in the following year.