Grafton to Rogers (Permanent Under-Secretary)

With reference to your letter of the 21st February
last forwarding copies of correspondence in which the
Governor of Vancouvers Island [marginal note: British Columbia]
requests that a balance of
£3937.10.6 stated to be due to British Columbia for the
Pay and Subsistence of the Detachment of Royal Engineers
lately serving in the Colony, may be paid to the Crown
Agents to the credit of the Colony,

I am directed by the Secretary of State for War to
acquaint you that the full amount of the credit taken
by this Department in the account Current, has been paid
over to the Treasury Account for Civil Services, or to the
Treasury Chest Account upon claims preferred by the Audit
Office, and that, under these circumstances, any claim
which the Colony may have against the Home Government on
account of advances made for the above Service should be
preferred against the Lords Commissoners of Her Majesty's Treasury.