Trevelyan to Merivale (Permanent Under-Secretary)

With reference to Mr Elliot's letter of the
15th
Instant,

enclosing Copy of a letter from Captain Parsons, reporting his arrival at Panama and stating the
actual and probable expenses of transporting his party to
British Columbia, I am directed by the Lords Commissioners
of Her Majesty's Treasury to acquaint you, for the
information of Sir E.B. Lytton, that My Lords have, since
the first advance of £540 to Captain Parsons, authorized the Paymaster General, by their letter
to him of the 6th Inst; to accept and pay a bill for
£823 drawn by Capt Parsons for the Passage of his
party of Royal Engineers from Panama to San Francisco,
and They will direct the acceptance of further Bills to
the extent of £277, which with the sum of £1323 already
issued, will make up the amount of £1600.