Government of $5,871.51
I should be obliged by your Lordship directing that copies of the letter to Lieut: Buchterlong and its accompaniments be sent to Major Aldrich, and that officer instructed to furnish me with a Memorandum of the out-turn of the Wood as soon as it shall be correctly ascertained...
(Signed) Henry Pottinger
Major Grant,
Victoria, August 9th, 1845.
I am directed by His Excellency the Governor to forward to you the accompanying copy of a letter from the Lieutenant Treasurer to Government, and to request that the Department concerned may be called on to furnish the required explanation and information, with a view to their being submitted with the Charge, and thereby avoiding the objections and references to which it must otherwise lead...
(Signed) Richard W. Osnam
Major Aldrich,
Commanding Royal Engineers
Victoria, 10th August, 1845
Mr Gorden (the Land Officer) and Captain De Havilland having represented to the Governor, that the Books of the late Survey of the Northern side of the Island would be very useful