No. 61

With reference to your despatch No. 52 of the 12th of May last,
I am directed by the Secretary of State to transmit to you the enclosed
copy of a letter from the Emigration Commissioners shewing the steps
that have been taken for sending out to British Columbia certain women
who had married or engaged to marry some of the Royal Engineers
stationed in the Colony; as named in the list enclosed in Colonel
Moody's letter of the 29th of March; you will perceive that these
Women, with certain exceptions,
have proceeded to Vancouver Island in the
"Marcella" which left for the Colony on the 12th Instant.

As the cost of these passages will be advanced from Imperial Funds,
I am desired to instruct you to take the necessary measures for
repayment of the amount in the manner authorized by the Secretary of
State's despatch of the 21st of July last, No. 43.