Trevelyan to Merivale (Permanent Under-Secretary)

With reference to your letter of the 9th
Inst;

enclosing a letter from Capt Gosset, the Colonial Treasurer of British 
Columbia, requesting that a Skeleton Gear of a powerful water wheel and
the Machinery of a circular Mill, and also a Lithographic press may be
sent out to him, I am directed by the Lords Commissioners of Her
Majesty's Treasury to acquaint you, for the information of Sir E.B. Lytton, that My Lords will not object to these Articles being supplied
for the service of the Expedition to British Columbia, provided that the
Cost does not exceed £200, and on the understanding that the amount will
be repaid from Colonial funds.