Hamilton to Rogers (Permanent Under-Secretary)

With reference to your letter of the 27th February last,
transmitting copy of a Despatch from the Governor of Vancouvers Island enclosing
Bill of Exchange for £1000 on account of Troops occupying San Juan, I
am directed by the Lords Commissioners of Her Majestys Treasury to
request that you will state to the Duke of Newcastle that the sum of
£1000 mentioned in the Despatch from the Governor of Vancouvers Island No 48 of 14 November last is stated to be required for extra
pay of Marines at San Juan and appears to have no reference to
the similar amount reported in the Despatch No 43 of 8 October
enclosed in your letter of the 8th December last—the latter having
been applied for on account of the erection of Temporary Barracks at
San Juan.

I am directed to enclose herewith copy of a letter from the War
Office of 1 January and of the reply thereto of [11] January relating to

the Barracks, and I am to request that you will move the [His]
Grace to inform My Lords whether any arrangement has been made in
regard to the Funds from which the extra pay of the Marines is to be
defrayed.