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PAPERS BKI.ATITK TO CLAIMS AND COUNTER-CLAIMS OF THE IMPERIAL AND COLONIAL GOVERNMENTS. No. 1. Copy of a Despatch from the Right Hon. the Earl of Carnarvon to Governor Sir Giorge Grey, K.C.B. (No. 6.) Sir,— Downing Street, 26th July, 1866. I have to acknowledge the receipt of your Despatches, as noted in the margin, having reference to matters of account between the Colonial and Imperial Treasuries. I have forwarded copies of your Despatches to the Treasury, but you will have learnt from Mr. Cardwell's Despatch No. 32, of the 26th March, that it was the wish of Her Majesty's Government that, as recommended by your Advisers, some person should be appointed, on behalf of the Colony, who might be authorized to examine these accounts with Commissary-General Jones, in order that some definite agreement might be arrived at as to the precise amount of the liabilities of the Colony to the Imperial Government. I have, &c, Governor Sir George Grey, K.C.B. Carxarvok. No. 2. Copy of Warrant appointing the Hon. Major Richardson to be Commissioner to examine and report on Claims and Counter-claims of Imperial and Colonial Governments. G. Grey, Governor. To the Honorable John Larkins Cheese Richardson, one of the Members of the Executive Council of the Colony of New Zealand. In pursuance of all powers vested in me in that behalf, I do hereby appoint you, the Honorable John Larkins Cheese Richardson, on behalf of the aforesaid Colony, to examine, in concert with Commissary General Jones, Companion of the Most Honorable Order of the Bath, into certain accounts, including claims and counter-claims (exclusive of the capitation charge) more specially referred to in certain Despatches specified in the Schedule hereunto annexed, between the Imperial Government and the Government of the aforesaid Coloßy, and into such other accounts as may by you be considered to arise between those Governments out of the Native disturbances in the aforesaid Colony during the years 1860, 1861, 1862, 1863, 1864, 1865, and 1866, and to report to me the results of such examination with a view to ascertaining the precise liabilities incurred by the Colony. Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir George Grey, Knight, Commander of the Most Honorable Order of the Bath, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty's Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies, at the Government House at "Wellington, this twenty-seventh day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six. E. W. Stafford. SCHEDULE. Sir George Grey to Mr. Cardwell. No. I—January Ist, 1866 No. 42—May 12th, 1866 6—January Bth, 1866 43—May 12th, 1866 9—January 12th, 1866 44—May 14th, 1866 11—January 13th, 1866 45—May 14th, 1866 Mr. Cardwell to Sir George Grey. No. 32—March 26th, 1866 | No. 52—April, 26th, 1866