Adverting to your Letter of the
18 Dec last on the subject of [the]
Vancouver Island Loan of £40,000 and to Clause XIII of the Loan Act
of
1862, I have the honor to request that you will move the
Duke of
Newcastle to determine the nature of the securities in which the sums
paid on account of the Sinking Fund are to be invested and to select
the Trustees for the same.
I would suggest that the Governor of
Vancouver Island, to meet the
requirements of Clause XIII of the Act before referred to should be
instructed
to to remit punctually to the Agents General the Sum of £2000
in time for the payment of the half years interest and Sinking Fund
due on the
15 July and
15 January in each year.