I am directed by the Lord Commissioners of Her Majesty's
               Treasury to state, for the information of the 
Duke of Buckingham &
                  Chandos, with reference to your letter of the 
21st Inst, that
               My Lords concur with His Grace in opinion that there is no longer
               any need for separate Accounts being kept by the Crown Agents for
               the Colonies, for 
Vancouver Island & 
British Columbia, and that
               the two should be therefore amalgamated.