Hamilton to Merivale (Permanent Under-Secretary)

With reference to your Letter of the 22nd Octr last, I am commanded
by the Lords Commissoners of Her Majesty's Treasury to acquaint you
that the Paymaster General has been authorized to accept & pay a Bill
drawn by James Douglas Esqre, Governor of Vancouvers Island, for
the sum of £2000

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for the Service of the Colony.