Hamilton to Rogers (Permanent Under-Secretary)

With reference to your letters of 2nd Ultimo and
2nd Instant I am desired by the Lords Commissioners of
Her Majesty's Treasury to acquaint you, for the information
of the Duke of Newcastle, that in consideration of Sergeant
McColl of the Royal Engineers, serving in British Columbia,
having been disappointed in obtaining a free passage for
his wife and family in the "Thames City" in consequence of
her illness at the time of the sailing of that Vessel,
Their Lordships will not object to the remission of the sum
of £52.10 being that part of the cost of their passages
in the "Marcella" which has not been repaid by him by
deductions from his pay;

At the same time Their Lordships request that it may be
ascertained, either from Colonel Moody or from the Governor
of British Columbia, whether the balance of the sum of
£217.11.2 advanced for the passages of the wives and
families of certain men of the Royal Engineers in the
 "Marcella," has been wholly recovered.