Maunsell to Under-Secretary of State

I have the honor to request that you will lay my claim to be
re-imbursed the sum of one hundred and ten pounds, the amount of
expenses incurred by me in returning to England from British
Columbia, before the Secretary of State for his Lordship's
favorable consideration.

In support of my application I venture to observe that Governor
Seymour died while in the discharge of his Official duties and
within a few months of the time when in the ordinary course of
events he would have become entitled to the sum of £800 out of
the Fund available for the Passages granted to Governors on
retirement under the Rules and Regulations for Her Majesty's
Colonial Service. Out of this sum my Passage would have been paid.

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I beg to state that I remained in the Colony, at my own expense,
for some time after the arrival of Governor Musgrave, believing
it to be my Public duty in consequence of the sudden death of
Mr Seymour to afford any information in my power to the New Governor.