Hamilton to Rogers (Permanent Under-Secretary)

I am commanded by the Lords Commissioners of Her
Majesty's Treasury to transmit to you the enclosed copy
of a Report (No. 250) from the Commissioners of Audit
dated 7th Instant, with a statement of payments
claimed credit for in the Account of the Colonial Treasurer
of British Columbia for the year 1861, under the authority
of the Governor, which are not provided for by the
sanctioned Estimate of the year, or have not been
otherwise notified to the Commissioners of Audit as
having been submitted for the approval of This Board,
and I am to request that you will move the
Duke of Newcastle to inform My Lords whether he sees any objection
to the admission of the several charges to which attention
has been drawn by the Commissioners of Audit.

It is requested that the statement may be returned.