Adverting to your Despatch of the
7 September 1859 No
20 respecting the sums drawn from the Imperial Treasury to
liquidate
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liquidate the Regimental Pay due to the detachment of Royal
Engineers in
British Columbia I have the honor to enclose
herewith to your Grace copy of a letter from the Colonial
Treasurer dated
30 May containing a statement of the
amounts drawn and issued up to date upon that account and
requesting authority
to
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to obtain the sum of One thousand Pounds (£1000)
to cover the present excess of issue over drafts. I have
therefore authorised the Treasurer to draw for the said sum
in the usual manner for this service, and I request your
Grace will be pleased to obtain the necessary authority from
the
Lords Commissoners of the Treasury for the Bills presented
on this account
to
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to be paid when they become due.