No. 31

I have the honor to acknowledge your Despatch No 4, of the 6th
of September 1855, in reply to my letter of the 15th of June last
reporting the measures taken to meet the requisition of the Commander in
Chief of the Naval forces in the Pacific; for providing the Fleet with
supplies, and Hospital accommodation at this settlement, and
communicating the satisfactory intelligence that the Hudson's Bay
Company had been apprized that on receiving proper vouchers, the Lords
Commissioners of the Admiralty will be ready to defray all the claims
which can justly be made on this account, on the Naval Department.

I beg to inform you that the proper accounts with Vouchers, of the
expenses incurred in providing hospital accommodations for the Fleet,
amounting to £932.5.0, were forwarded in Duplicate on the 10th day of
October last, to the Hudson's Bay Company, who advanced the capital
required for erecting the hospital and will be presented by them to the
Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty for payment.