Referring to Your Lordship's Despatch N 32, of the 
25 March
               last and its enclosures, I now have the honor to forward the 
San
                  Juan Island Military Accounts and Vouchers for the year ended
               
31 December, 1869. A further Statement for the first Quarter
               of 
1870 will be forwarded when
the
 the Audit of those accounts has
               been completed.
               
               2. I am informed by the Auditor that the 
San Juan Account has
               been always heretofore sent as a yearly statement from 1
               January to 31 December; and has been furnished within the
               period allowed by the Regulations. It is not clear from 
M
                  Lushington's Letter to the Secretary of 
the Treasury whether or
               not the 
Admiralty desire that this arrangement should be changed
               and the Annual
Accounts
 Accounts made up from the 
31 March to the
               same date in the following year.