I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your Despatch No.
107 of the
11th August, enclosing applications addressed to you by
Officers of your Government praying for compensation for the losses they
have sustained by permanently removing from
New Westminster to
Victoria.
I sincerely lament the losses to which these gentlemen
have![Manuscript image Manuscript image](https://hcmc.uvic.ca/~coldesp/jpg_scans/jpg_thumbnail/rg7_g8c_15/rg7_g8c_15_00263v.jpg)
have been
subjected by the consolidation of the two Colonies, and would gladly
learn that the Colonial Legislature had voted them in Land or Money some
compensation for those losses.
It is for the Government and Legislature of
British Columbia to
consider how and to what extent this could be done, as it is not in my
power to recommend that any indemnity should be given them from Imperial
Funds.