No. 17, Military Expenses

Colonel Moody, commanding the Troops in British Columbia,
having made Requisition upon me for the sum of about Fourteen
Hundred pounds on Military account, as described in the Margin,

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I have the honor to acquaint

Your Grace, that not having funds
in the Colonial Chest to meet this demand, I have instructed
the Treasurer to procure the above named sum, by Bills on Her
Majesty's Paymaster General, and I trust your Grace will be
pleased to obtain the necessary authority from the Lords
Commissoners of the Treasury, for the Bills presented on
this account to be paid, when they

become due.