Trevelyan to Merivale (Permanent Under-Secretary)

With reference to the letter of this Board of the
25th
ult.

I am commanded by the Lords Commissioners of
Her Majesty's Treasury to acquaint you that the Paymaster
General has been authorized to accept and pay a Bill for
£40 drawn by Captain B.M. Parsons R.E. on account of
certain Royal Engineers proceeding to Victoria, Vancouvers Island.