In have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your Despatch No. 45
of the
25 April requesting permission to defer the remittance of the sum
of £675.2.4 being the amount due to the War Department by the government
of
British Columbia.
For the reasons stated by you I shall not press the immediate
liquidation
liquidation of that claim, but I have to request you to make provision in
next year[s] Estimates for the amount in question or for the greater
part of it.