Could you put us in the way to get some of the Scot families here that are emigrating from the Islands, we might get up a Subscription to aid the society that sends them out, but no one here knows how to go about it. I see by the late proclamation with regard to the sale of land that military and naval officers are only allowed as their grant the upset or fixed price of one acre of land for each pound of remission money but it seems to me that this clause unless I have mistaken it arises altogether from a misconstruction of the naval regulations which provide that every officer according to a fixed scale efiall be allowed a remission to a certain extent of the purchase money of such land as he may buy at public auction and cannot conceive how the Govr. can impose any condition in direct, contravention of the terms of the regulation made by the home Government, and beside the injustice of the regulation is manifest as the amount of remission money (so states the regulation) cannot be increased should the upset price be higher than one pound per acre and in equity should the upset ppice fall below that standard, the remission money Should not be lowered, will you state this to Dr. Sinclair and let me know what he thinks about it.