Cox & Co. to Rogers (Permanent Under-Secretary)
CraigsCourt
18 March 1862
Sir,
We have the honor to transmit a certificate showing that Colonel R.C. Moody, R.E., Chief Commr of Works, British Columbia, was alive on 2nd January last and to request that the usual authority may be issued to the Paymaster General, for the payment of that officer's salary, December quarter 1861.
We have the honor to be, Sir,
Your most obedt Servants
Cox & Co

Sir Frederick Rogers Bart.
&c &c &c
Minutes by CO staff
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Mr Blackwood
I annex the usual drafts.
EBP 20-3-62
Documents enclosed with the main document (not transcribed)
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Certificate testifying that Colonel Moody "was living on the 2nd day of January 1862," signed by George Edward Cook, Justice of the Peace for Westminster, 18 March 1862.
Other documents included in the file
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Rogers to G.A. Hamilton, Treasury, 22 March 1862, requesting that Moody's pay for the quarter ended 31 December 1860 be issued to Cox & Co.
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Rogers to Cox & Co., 22 March 1862, advising that the Treasury had been requested to issue Moody's salary.