Arbuthnot to Merivale (Permanent Under-Secretary)

With reference to the arrangements in progress in regard
to the sums properly chargeable to Naval and Military Funds,
on account of expenditure in British Columbia; I am directed
by the Lords Commissoners of Her Majesty's Treasury, to
transmit to you, for the information of the Duke of Newcastle,
the enclosed copy of a Statement, submitted by the Paymaster
General, showing the amount of Bills drawn by direction of
the Governor of British Columbia, and the amount of which
payment has been authorized by this Board.