Hawes to Merivale (Permanent Under-Secretary)

In reply to your letter of 15th
inst;

I am directed
by Secretary Major General Peel to acquaint you that the
ordinary extra-pay and allowances of the British Columbian
Detachment of Royal Engineers ceased from the respective
dates on which its several portions embarked. Information
regarding these dates was forwarded to your Office in the letter
from this Department of 7th
inst.

With reference to the latter paragraph of your communication,
I am directed by Secretary Major General Peel to acquaint you, that
an advance of one hundred and twenty days' Regimental pay has been
made to the Detachment by the Agents of the Royal Engineers,
under authority from this Office, in usual course. It is not
therefore understood under what circumstances, as stated by
you, "an advance of one hundred and twenty days' pay both
Regimental and Colonial, was made by the Treasury to these
Officers in September last."