Hamilton to Rogers (Permanent Under-Secretary)

In reply to your letter of the [cut off file]
I am directed by the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's
Treasury to acquaint you for the information of the Secretary
of State that They will not object to the payment of the
cost of the passages, from this Country to British Columbia,
of the wives and families of certain of the Non-Commissioned
Officers and Privates belonging to the Detachment of Royal
Engineers stationed in that Colony, as submitted by you—the
payment to be considered as "an advance" to be repaid
from the Colonial Revenue of British Columbia.