Young to Under-Secretary of State

I have the honor to request that you will be pleased to move the
Right Honourable Her Majesty's principal Secretary of State for the
Colonies, to issue the requisite authority to the Crown Agents for
the Colonies, for the payment periodically to my Agents Messrs
Woodhead & Co of 44 Charing Cross, of the Half Salary due to me
while on leave of absence from the Colony of Vancouver's Island,
commencing on and from the 15th May 1864.