With reference to your letter of the
20th Ultimo, relative to a Bill
for £430 drawn by the Treasurer of
Vancouvers Island on account of
Lighthouses which are being built there, I am directed by the Lords
Commissioners of Her Majestys Treasury to acquaint you for the
information of the
Duke of Newcastle that they have directed the
acceptance and payment of the Bill in question, and they approve of
the proposal of the Secretary of State
that that the Colony should pay one
moiety of the Total Cost of the Lighthouses including this last sum
of £430, and Their Lordships request to be informed of the
arrangements which may have been made by the Local Government for the
discharge of the Debt.