Hamilton to Under-Secretary of State

The Lords Commissoners of Her Majesty's Treasury have
had before them your letter of 16th ulto enclosing copy
of a letter from the Admiralty with one from the Naval
Commander in Chief on the Pacific Station asking for
instructions as to the payment of arrears of Colonial Pay to
the Detachment of Royal Marines at San Juan from April 1st
to Decr 31st 1867.

I am to state for the information of the Secretary of State,
that as it would appear to My Lords clear from the correspondence
which took place in 1860 that the detachment which was stationed
at St Juan was to be granted extra pay equal to the
regular pay of the Force, My Lords are of the opinion that the
men who are serving at that station are entitled to receive
additional pay granted by the Order in Council of August 1867,
from the date at which such additional pay was granted under
the provisions of the Order in Council.