Hamilton to Merivale (Permanent Under-Secretary)

With reference to your Letter of the 30th Decr
last, 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 the Account of Army Services the sum of
£1,136.16.11 in repayment of the Expenses incurred by the
War Office for Stores supplied to the Royal Engineers in
British Columbia to replace certain articles which were lost
at Sea in the "Briseis."