With reference to your Letter of the
30 Dec
last, 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 the Account of Army Services the sum of
£1,136.16.11 in repayment of the Expenses incurred by the
War Office for Stores supplied to the Royal Engineers in
British Columbia to replace certain articles which were lost
at Sea in the "
Briseis."