Hamilton to Rogers (Permanent Under-Secretary)

With reference to your letter of the 25th ult. relating to the
manner in which provision is to be made for the extra pay issued by
Governor Douglas to the Royal Marines employed at San Juan, I am
directed by the Lords Commissoners of Her Majesty's Treasury to
transmit herewith for the information of the Duke of Newcastle copy
of a letter addressed to the War Department requesting that provision
should be made for this service in the Army Estimates.