Hamilton to Merivale (Permanent Under-Secretary)

With reference to Sir E.B. Lyttons letter of the 1st
Inst, I am commanded by the Lords Commissioners of Her
Majesty's Treasury to acquaint you that the Paymaster General
has been authorized to pay to Mr P. Smith Chief Clerk of
the Colonial Office the sum of £50.14.8. to meet the charges
of passing Letters Patent under the Great Seal erecting
British Columbia and Vancouver's Island into a Bishops See and
appointing the Revd George Hills D.D. to be Bishop
thereof.

The Vouchers are herewith returned.