M Elliot
I think
the Treasury Instructions of /48 should be sent to the
Gov of
B. Columbia, to be communicated to the Col: Treasurer, for his inf
& guidance, together with a copy of this Letter and its enclosures—from
which
Cap Gossett will learn that he has made an erroneous
suggestion in regard to the stamps he asked for for the Colony. As to
the T-y enquiry whether it is intended that the general system of
accounts, applying to other Colonies, should be extended to B. C,
it is at present a little embar[r]assing to answer in the very early
stage of affairs in this new place. But as it is clear that until the
Colony is self supporting Parl will have to maintain the
establish I think that
the Treasury should at once send out the
Instructions addressed to Governors of all Crown Colonies; for an account
framed in a proper form, will have to be rendered to the Comm of
Audit in England. When the Colony can pay its own way, & the accounts
are rendered to its own local Authorities, the Instruction of the
T-y may be operative or not.