With reference to the last paragraph of the despatch of
6th
ult. from the Governor of
British Columbia, copy of which was
transmitted in your letter of
10th inst, I am directed by the
Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury to state, for the
information of
Earl Granville, that the desire of the Admiralty
is that the present arrangement, by which the Account of
Expenditure in connection with
the the Detachment of Royal Marines
at
San Juan Island is made up for the year from
1st January to
31st December, should be changed, and that for the future the
Account should be made up from the
31st March in one year to
the same date in the next.
I am also to request that directions may be given for the early
transmission of the Account for the Quarter to 31 March 1870 in
order to give effect to this arrangement.