productive of daily work, left little time for new operations or for doing more than completing transactions already in progress, and which, so far as they had gone, had already been made the subject of report.

In that report, dated 15th March, 1869, it was stated that "the income to be credited to the fiscal year beginning 1st July, 1868, amounts at present date to $34,493 38, and justify the expectation that by the 30th June next, the last day of the said fiscal year, it will equal a sum of $50,000."

On the "30th June" next (the 30th June last past) the income of this Branch of your Department had amounted to $48,219 22 cts, collected under the following heads: -

During the same period, from the 1st July, 1865, to 30th June, 1869, sales of Ordnance Lands had been made to the extent of $71,348 03, on account of which $13,114 52 had been received.

During the Session of Parliament, as I have before said, the time and attention of the Ordnance, Lands Branch was almost entirely engaged by routine business, chiefly with Members of the Legislature and their constituents and friends, and in the brief interval of eight days which ensued previous to the 30th June, no occurrence took place requiring special mention.

The Hon. Hector L. Langevin, C.B.,
Secretary of State, Canada.
ADDENDUM.

Statement of receipts from Ordnance Lands, since transfer to Canada.