Hamilton to Merivale (Permanent Under-Secretary)

In reply to your Letter of the 12th Instant, enclosing
a copy of a Despatch from the Governor of British Columbia, advising
a further draft of £5,200 upon this Board, on account of
Colonial pay due to the Royal Engineers, from the 1st of
September 1858, to the 31st May last, and of £1,200 on
account of Working pay due to the force of Royal Marines serving
in the Colony; I am directed by the Lords Commissioners of Her
Majesty's Treasury, to acquaint you, for the information of the
Duke of Newcastle, that the Paymaster General has been authorized
to accept and pay the Bills which have been drawn for these sums,
and to charge the same, for the present, to the grant for British
Columbia, the particulars of the respective Bills not having
been stated.