I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of Your Despatch No: 4
of the
9 February 1863 acquainting me that the final accounts
relating to the erection of the Lighthouses in
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have not
yet been received and that the Lords of the Committee of Privy
Council for Trade were unable in consequence to settle the Accounts
for these Lighthouses.
2. I beg to express my regret for this inadvertent omission which
arose through the change in Treasurers and I hasten to supply it. By
the present mail the accounts in question will be forwarded
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to the
Secretary of the
Board of Trade and I trust that they may be found
satisfactory.