Cox & Co. to Rogers (Permanent Under-Secretary)

We have the honor to enclose a certificate to the effect that
Colonel R.C. Moody, Royal Engineers, was alive and performing his
duties, as Commissioner of Lands & Works for British Columbia, on
1st July last, and request that you will be good enough to
direct the usual authority to issue to the Paymaster General for
the payment of that officer's Salary to 30 June.