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Despatch from London
Lytton, Sir Edward George Earle Bulwer to Douglas, Sir James 10 December 1858, LAC :, 451.

Abstract
Despatch from London.
Lytton forwards to Douglas letters and reports for Governors of Colonies “regulating the mode of keeping and rendering the accounts of Colonial Receipt and Expenditure.” He instructs Douglas to give the documents to the Treasurer.
No. 52
Downing Street
10 December 1858
Sir,
I transmit for your information and guidance a copy of a letter from the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury accompanied by a Report from the Commissioners of Audit with a copy of printed Instructions to Governors of Colonies regulating the mode of keeping and renderingtheManuscript image the accounts of Colonial Receipt and Expenditure. 1
You will forward these Documents to the Treasurer of British Columbia, and instruct him to conform to the same in his financial proceedings.
The Extracts and Warrants and other forms referred to in the letter from the Board of Treasury will be transmitted to you as soon as they are prepared.
I have the honor to be
Sir
Your most Obedient
humble Servant
E B Lytton
Lytton, Sir Edward George Earle Bulwer to Douglas, Sir James 10 December 1858, LAC :, 451. The Colonial Despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871, Edition 2.0, ed. James Hendrickson and the Colonial Despatches project. Victoria, B.C.: University of Victoria. https://bcgenesis.uvic.ca/B587052.html.

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