Colonial Despatches
The colonial despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871
Despatch from London
Leveson-Gower, Granville George to
Musgrave, Sir Anthony 20 June 1870, NAC :, 227.
Abstract
Leveson-Gower, Granville George to
Musgrave, Sir Anthony 20 June 1870, NAC :, 227.
Despatch from London.
Other documents (1).
No. 66
20 June 1870
Sir,
I transmit to you for your information and guidance and in reply to
your Despatch No. 56 of the 6th May a copy of a letter from the Treasury
from which you will be [?] perceive that the accounts of expenditure in
connection with the Detachment of Royal Marines at San JuanIsland
Island are
from the future to be made up from the 31st March in one year to the
same date in the next.
Island are
from the future to be made up from the 31st March in one year to the
same date in the next.
In order to give effect to this arrangement I have to instruct you
to forward to this Department as soon as possible the account for the
Quarter ending 31st March last.
Other documents included in the file
Copy, Stansfeld to Rogers, 16 June 1870, stating that "the desire of the Admiralty is that the present arrangement by which
the account of Expenditure in connection with the Detachment of Royal Marines at San Juan Island is made up for the year from 1st January to 31 December, should be changed."