Hamilton to Merivale (Permanent Under-Secretary)

With reference to your Letter of the 11th Ulto.,
enclosing a copy of an Application from Messrs Cox & Co,
for payment to them of the Colonial pay of Colonel Moody, as
Commissioner of Lands and Works in British Columbia, to the
31st March last, I am directed by the Lords Commissioners
of Her Majesty's Treasury, to acquaint you, for the information
of the Duke of Newcastle, that My Lords are unable to ascertain
from the Papers in this Department, the exact amount that may be
due to Col: Moody.

In your Letter of the 17th Septr 1858, it was
recommended that one hundred and twenty day's pay should be
issued to Col: Moody and other Officers then about to proceed
to British Columbia; and a sum of £800 was issued on that account.

Assuming that Col: Moody received out of that sum, one
hundred and twenty day's pay from the 18th of August 1858
inclusive, and that he has received nothing in the Colony on
account of his salary of £1,200 per annum, there would be due
to him sixteen day's pay to the 31st December last, and one
quarter to the 31st March, amounting to £352.3.6; and Their
Lordships will direct the Paymaster General to issue that sum
to Messrs Cox & Co, as Agents for Colonel Moody, from the
grant for British Columbia.

They would, at the same time, remind you that no portion
of Col: Moody's salary, as Commissioner of Land and Works, is
provided for in that Estimate, and that this advance, as well
as that previously made, must be repaid from Colonial Funds.