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[continued from previous page] -portunity, when he was in England, of submitting a memorandum on this subject to the Lords of the Treasury, – a copy of which he now lays before the council and in December last, in a letter to Lord Bathurst, he again urged the necessity of placing the establishment on a more efficient footing, and the propriety of relieving Nova Scotia from a part at least, of the expense of its future maintenance.

With the results of these applications the council is already acquainted; and His Excellency cannot doubt but that the legislature will gladly accede to the condition in which this liberal offer of his Majesty’s Government is made.

Government House
8th February 1827