I have the honour to enclose a copy of a letter from 
Mr
                  Stanford of Charing Cross containing an offer for the engraving
               and printing of the general map of 
British Columbia compiled in
               the Lands and Works Office of the Colony, and which I brought
               home for publication.
               
               Authority has been received by the Crown Agents for an
               Expenditure of ($500) five hundred dollars on this account, and
               as the terms proposed by 
Mr Stanford, viz
t to supply (500) five
               hundred copies for (£100) one hundred pounds, and any further
               number at (£3) three pounds
per
 per hundred retaining the right to
               print and sell on his own account whatever further copies may
               be required by the trade—appear to me very reasonable, I beg to
               advise that I may be authorized to accept this offer, and that
               the Crown Agents be instructed to receive and forward the (500)
               five hundred copies of the map to 
British Columbia, and to pay
               to 
Mr Stanford the sum of (£100) one hundred pounds on the due
               completion of the work he undertakes to perform.