With reference to the last paragraph of the despatch of 
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                  ult. from the Governor of 
British Columbia, copy of which was
               transmitted in your letter of 
10 inst, I am directed by the
               
Lords Commissoners of Her Majesty's Treasury to state, for the
               information of 
Earl Granville, that the desire of the 
Admiralty
               is that the present arrangement, by which the Account of
               Expenditure in connection with
the
 the Detachment of Royal Marines
               at 
San Juan Island is made up for the year from 
1 January to
                  31 December, should be changed, and that for the future the
               Account should be made up from the 
31 March in one year to
               the same date in the next.
               
               I am also to request that directions may be given for the early
               transmission of the Account for the Quarter to 31 March 1870 in
               order to give effect to this arrangement.