I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch No. 19
               of the 
24th of March drawing my attention to the Act of the Legislature
               of 
Vancouver Island providing a salary for the Chief Justice.
               
               It will of course be necessary for the Legislature to make a
               permanent, as distinct from an annual, provision for
the
 the successor of
               the Chief Justice now to be appointed, when that Officer vacates his
               appointment, but in the meantime the Act already forwarded by you
               sufficiently fulfils the condition required by me, which was that 
Mr.
                  Cameron's successor should not be sent out with an uncertain provision.
               
               I take for granted that on receiving my despatch of the 
17th of
                  April you have assented to the Act assigning this salary to the next
               Chief Justice. If not you
should
 should of course do so at once.