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."