No. 1

The Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty have sent in a claim
against your Government for the sum of Sixty nine pounds eighteen
shillings and two pence on account of Supplies made to the Bentinck Arm
Expedition up to Michaelmas, 1864.

The enclosed Vouchers and abstract will supply you with the details
of this charge, which I have instructed the Crown Agents to defray, and
I have to request you to take the necessary steps for the repayment to
the Agents of the amount they have disbursed.