No. 71

I have the honor to acknowledge your Despatch No. 12 of the 7th
of January on the subject of the amounts of travelling allowance to be
granted to Colonel Moody and to the Officers of Royal Engineers while
absent from their fixed residence upon duties connected with their Civil
Services.
I have to instruct you that Colonel Moody should have the same
allowance as Principal Civil Servants in the Colony vizt: £1 per night,
and that the subordinate Officers should have the allowances of Civil
Servants in analogous portions viz. 15/ per night.

With respect to the question contained in your Despatch as to which
Officers are entitled to charge the cost of the travelling expenses of
their Servants, I have to state that no allowance for Servants is granted in this Country to Officers travelling on the Public Service,
and that none ought to be granted in British Columbia.