With reference to your Letter of the 
3 Instant, I
               am commanded by the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's
               Treasury to acquaint you that the Paymaster General has been
               authorized to pay to Mess 
Cox & Co on behalf of
               
Col Moody RE, Commissioner of Lands in 
British Columbia,
               the sum of £300 being the amount due to him for Salary in
               respect of the Quarter to 
31 December last.