No. 25
19th July 1864
Sir,
I have the honor to transmit to you the enclosed copy of a letter from the Board of Treasury accompanied by a report from the Commissioners of Audit which exhibits under different heads the excess of the actual over the estimated expenditureofManuscript image of British Columbia for the year 1862.
I feel confident that you will use your best endeavours to bring the accounts of the Colony into a satisfactory condition, and in furtherance of that object I have to request that you will cause to be prepared at the end of each year supplementary Estimates of all Expenditure not covered by the original Estimates for the year, and that you will submit these Estimates as soon as convenient in the following year to the Legislative Council togetherwithManuscript image with an Ordinance to authorize the appropriation of the amount required to cover the excess over the original Estimates.
With reference to the present account received from the Commissioners of Audit I have to request that you will report upon the items, in order that I may be in a position to judge whether I may properly recommend to the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury that they should be allowed.
I have the honor to be
Sir,
Your most obedient
humble servant
Edward Cardwell
Other documents included in the file
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Copy, Peel to Rogers, 11 July 1864, transmitting a copy of the audit.
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Copy, Commissioners of Audit to the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury, 23 June 1864, audit as per despatch.
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Copy, Peel to the Commissioner of Audit, 9 July 1864, explaining the stipulations of the British Columbia Loan Act, 1862.
Copy, "Statement of certain payments claimed credit for in the accounts of the Colonial Treasurer of British Columbia for the year 1862..." 23 June 1864.
Cardwell, Edward to Seymour, Governor Frederick 19 July 1864, NAC :, 261. 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/B647425.html.

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