Colonial Despatches
The colonial despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871
Correspondence (private letter)
Cox & Co. to Rogers, Frederic 3 July 1863, CO 60:17, no. 6498, 419.
Abstract
Correspondence (private letter).
Minutes (2).
Cox & Co. to Rogers (Permanent Under-Secretary)
Craigscourt S.W.
3rd July 1863
Sir,
We have the honor to draw your attention to our letter
of the 15th ulto, requesting to be furnished with the
usual certificate from your office, without which the
Paymaster General will not issue to us Colonel R.C. Moody's
R.E. salary for March quarter last.
We beg to add that on applying today at the Paymaster
General's Office for Colonel Ord's Salary, March 1/4, as
Governor of the Bermudas, for which you furnished us with a
certificate in May last, we are informed that the Treasury
authority has not yet reached that department.
Minutes by CO staff
Mr Elliot
It has been usual and apparently sufficient in order to enable Cox & Co to draw the salary of the Governor of Bermuda to furnish them upon their application for presentation to the Paymaster General with a certificate of the form in use at this office.
It has been usual and apparently sufficient in order to enable Cox & Co to draw the salary of the Governor of Bermuda to furnish them upon their application for presentation to the Paymaster General with a certificate of the form in use at this office.
The Paymaster General appears now to require independently
of this certificate an additional authority from the Treasury which I
suppose would only issue on the receipt of a letter from this office.
I suppose the Treasury should be asked, though it would
be for the first time, to issue the authority required by
the Paymaster General.
A precisely inverted course was recently observed with
respect to the salary of Colonel Moody of British Columbia.
It was usual in this case upon the receipt of a letter from
Cox & Co to
request the Treasury to authorize the issue of
Colonel Moody's salary and, on hearing this had been done, to
inform Cox & Co but without sending them a certificate of the
kind abovementioned.
request the Treasury to authorize the issue of
Colonel Moody's salary and, on hearing this had been done, to
inform Cox & Co but without sending them a certificate of the
kind abovementioned.
On the application of Messrs Cox for Colonel Moodys
salary for the last December quarter the same course was by
inadvertence followed as has been usual in the case of the
Governor of Bermuda—i.e. they were simply furnished with a
certificate—this proved insufficient and the inadvertence
had to be rectified by following the usual course in the case
of Colonel Moody—viz of simply writing to the Treasury.
But when on the application of Messrs Cox for the issue
of Colonel Moody's [pay] for the last March quarter, the usual
course was followed (viz of writing to the Treasury) the
Paymaster for the first time refused to issue the Salary without
the production of a certificate of the abovenamed kind.
I suppose in future the course will be to write to the
Treasury and, on receiving an answer, to inform Messrs
Cox also sending them a certificate.
But I have gone into the case in case you should think it
worth while to ask the Treasury to explain the departure from
the usual practice in Colonel Ord's case as well as in Colonel Moodys.
RE
4 July 63
Vide B. Columbia 2319, 5463, 5930.