I have to acknowledge your Despatch No. 30 dated the 
25th March
                  last, submitting an Appropriation Ordinance, No. 1 of 
1870, passed by
               the Legislative Council and yourself for the service of the year 
1870.
               The Estimates on which the ordinance is founded having
been
 been already
               submitted with your Despatch, No. 9 of the 
29th January last.
               
               2. Her Majesty's Government now give their sanction to the
               Estimates subject to the observations made in my Despatch acknowledging
               them No. 35 dated the 
1st Ultimo and I have also to convey to you, and
               you will publish in the usual and most authentic manner, Her Majesty's
               confirmation and allowance of the Ordinance No. 1 of 
1870 entitled as
               follows:
An
               
               An ordinance to appropriate the sum of Three hundred and forty thousand,
               one hundred and five dollars, seventy five cents out of the general
               Revenue of the Colony, for the contingent service of the year 
1870.