Sargeaunt to Rogers (Permanent Under-Secretary)

I have the honor to acknowledge your letter of yesterday's
date instructing the Crown Agents to pay the Paymaster General
the sum of £6900 for Silver Coin supplied by the Imperial
Government to British Columbia and to enclose for the information
of His Grace the Duke of Newcastle, copy of a letter received
from the Colonial Secretary of that Colony on the subject of
that payment, and I have to request that you will favor me with
His Grace's instructions whether the amount named in your letter
above referred to should be paid, or the balance £5052.3.8
as requested by the Colonial Secretary.