Hamilton to Merivale (Permanent Under-Secretary)

I have laid before the Lords Commissioners of Her
Majesty's Treasury your letter of the 17th June last
transmitting accounts of the stores supplied by the War
Department for the use of the Royal Engineers in British
Columbia and I am instructed to acquaint you for the
information of the Duke of Newcastle that they have given
directions to the Paymaster General to transfer from the
Parliamentary Grant for British Columbia to the account of
Army Services the sum of twelve thousand one hundred and
forty three pounds and four shillings (£12.143.4.0)
in repayment of the value of those Stores.

Their Lordships observe that several of these Stores
are stated to have been purchased by Colonel Moody. They
presume that that Officer was duly authorized to purchase
the same, and that they are distinct from those in respect
to which the sums of £3000 and £3,400 were issued to
him as requested by your letters of 24 September and 26
October last.