Trevelyan to Merivale (Permanent Under-Secretary)

I am directed by the Lords Commissioners of Her
Majesty's Treasury to acquaint you, for the information
of Sir E.B. Lytton, that under the circumstances stated
in the Earl of Carnarvon's letter of the 30th
Ultimo,

Their Lordships will not object to the Officers and Men
of the Royal Engineers, composing the British Columbia
Expedition, being allowed to receive their extra pay and
allowances from the day on which they were appointed to
the Colonial Service to that of their Embarkation.