No. 45

I have to request that you will inform Colonel Moody, with
reference to his letter of the 25th
Ultimo,

that the Lords Commissoners of the Treasury will not object to the issue
quarterly of his Civil and Military Pay as Chief Commissioner of Lands
and Works in British Columbia to his Agents Messrs Cox & Co but
that it will be necessary that he should transmit to me a quarterly
Certificate of his existence for the information of their Lordships.

You will also inform him that their Lordships have intimated to me
that an advance of 120 days pay has been made to him and the other
Officers of the Expedition which pay will be considered as commencing
from the date when they ceased to receive pay from the War Department.