At the request of 
Mr Samuel Harris  a resident at 
Cowichan in
               this Colony  I forward for Your Lordship's information the
               annexed Papers relative to a claim which was preferred against
               and has been paid by the Government
of
 of Colombia, and in which he
               is interested.  He asks that application may be made at the
               Foreign Office that the sum in the hands of that Department at
               his credit may be placed to the account of 
British Columbia with
               the Crown Agents and that authority may be issued to me to pay
               the same through the Treasury here, to him.