Hamilton to Rogers (Permanent Under-Secretary)

I am directed by the Lords Commissoners of Her Majesty's Treasury to
acquaint you, for the information of the Duke of Newcastle, with
reference to the letter of the Board of 17 Inst, that Their Lordships
have directed the acceptance by the Paymaster General of two further
Bills—No 10 for £1000, and No 11 for £500—which have been drawn by
G.T. Gordon, Treasurer of Vancouver's Island—the service for which
the amounts are drawn not being stated in the Bill.

My Lords presume that these Bills have been drawn on account of
further expenses connected with the Marines at San Juan, but They
request that the Governor of Vancouver's Island may be instructed to
report the service for which the Bills have been drawn, and to give
directions that the service may be in future specified on all Bills
that may be drawn by the Treasurer or Acting Treasurer of Vancouver's Island, as well as of British Columbia.