Lugard to Rogers (Permanent Under-Secretary)

Referring to your letter of the 7 August 1861 on the
subject of giving grants of land in British Columbia to
the men employed on the North American Boundary Commission
with a view to their becoming settlers in the Colony I am
directed by the Secretary of State for War to transmit to you
for the favorable consideration of the Duke of Newcastle the
accompanying copy of a letter from the Horse Guards and of
it's enclosure from Lieut. Colonel Hawkins Royal Engineers in
which he recommends that this boon may be extended to the
eighteen men named in the list annexed who have purchased
their discharge on the withdrawal of the commission.