With reference to your letter of the
15th Instant, I
am desired by the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury
to acquaint you, for the information of
Mr Secretary Cardwell,
that Their Lordships see no objection to the confirmation of the
British Columbia Ordinance No 8 (of the
4th of March 1865) to
establish a Decimal system of Accounts in that Colony.
With regard to the similar Act passed by the Government of
Vancouver Island in
December 1862, of which a Copy was enclosed
in
Mr Elliot's letter of
23 April 1863,
I am I am directed to
state that there appears to this Board to be no objection to its
being left to its operation.