I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your Despatch
Separate of the
3d of November last reporting that the Crown Agents had
been instructed to repay the sum of Three Pounds being the amount of the
Stamp Duty due on the Warrants of Messrs Gordon and Carey [Cary] as
Treasurer and Attorney General for
Vancouver Island; and to acquaint
you that the agents have since repaid the sum in question.