Cox & Co. to Rogers (Permanent Under-Secretary)

We have the honor to transmit a life Certificate
dated 3rd October last showing that on that date Colonel R.C. Moody RE was performing his duties as Chief
Commissioner of Lands and Works for British Columbia,
and to request that you will be good enough to send us
the necessary certificate from your office and move the
Treasury to issue to the Paymaster General the authority
for the payment of that Officer's salary, September quarter 1863.