Watson to Elliot (Assistant Under-Secretary)

Referring to Governor Seymour's despatch to me dated the 30th
March 1867, copy of which was enclosed in my letter to His Grace the
Secretary of State on the 16th of July last, offering me,
inter alia, six months
leave on Full Pay; and to the
circumstance of my having drawn, up to the present time, only
two-thirds of the pay assigned to my late office of Colonial
Treasurer of Vancouver Island by the Secretary of State, I have the
honor to request that the Crown Agents may be instructed to honor my
draft for the balance, namely, one hundred pounds, being the
difference betwixt £600 and £400 per annum for Six months ending 31st
October 1867, which I shall present at the office of The Crown Agents
on the 1st proximo.