No. 9

I have received your Despatch No. 19, of the 11th of January
enquiring about a payment of £9,051.18.1 claimed by the Colony on
Account of expenses of Royal Engineers and admitted by the Board of
Treasury in a letter which was forwarded to you on the 7th of June 1866.

I have the honor to transmit to you, for your information, the
enclosed copy of a further letter from the Treasury dated the 22nd of
December last, pointing out that the admission of the claim from the
Colony was made in error. The Colonial Auditor, it appears, neglected
to include in his Account the Regimental Pay of the Engineers defrayed
by the Imperial Government out of Army Estimates, and also the Colonial
Pay of Colonel Moody paid to him by the Treasury. These items appear by
the Accounts annexed to the Treasury teller to have amounted to the
following sums.

Regimental Pay in 1862
£4397. 1.5

    "       "     1863
3625. 0.7

Col. Moody's Colonial    Pay in 1862
1200. 0.0

Col. Moody's Colonial Pay   in 1863
1046.10.0

10468.12.0

This is more than the amount which previously appeared to be due
from this Country. The Treasury State, that having already paid to the
Crown Agents the sum of £6,714, they will not reclaim it, but that as
the demand on this Country was made and admitted by an oversight, they
cannot make any further issue on that Account.

With reference to the allusion in the letter from the Treasury to
the payment already made by them of £6,714, I transmit for your
information Copies of a correspondence which passed with the Treasury at
the time when the payment was made.