Stephenson to Merivale (Permanent Under-Secretary)

With reference to your Letter of yesterdays
date,

I am commanded by the Lords Commissoners of Her Majesty's Treasury
to acquaint you that the Paymaster General has been authorized to pay to
Messrs Cox & Co on account of Col Moody RE the sum of £3,000 for
Stores authorized to be purchased for the party of Royal Engineers for
Service in British Columbia, which were not obtainable from the Tower.