I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch No. 57
               of the 
5th April enclosing a letter from 
Mr. Watson late Treasurer of
               
Vancouvers Island requesting remuneration for the additional work and
               responsibility cast upon him by
making
 making payments and keeping accounts of
               the extra pay and allowances granted to the Royal Marines stationed at
               
San Juan.
               
               Your despatch purports to enclose a report by 
Mr. Young on 
Mr.
                  Watson's application but the report has been accidentally omitted, and I
               have to request you to forward a copy of it by the first opportunity.