Murray to Merivale (Permanent Under-Secretary)

I am directed by Lord John Russell to acknowledge the receipt of your
Letter of the 2nd instant respecting a claim which had been
preferred on the Colonial Department for the payment of Twelve
Shillings on account of Stores supplied to Lieutenant Colonel Hawkins
at Vancouver's Island; and I am to state to you, in reply, that His
Lordship has requested the Secretary of State for War to give
directions that this Sum may be paid to the credit of Naval Services
and charged to the Account of Her Majesty's Special Mission for the
survey of the land boundary between British Oregon and the Territory
of the United States.