The 
Lords Commissoners of Her Majesty's Treasury have
               had before them your letter of 
16 ult enclosing copy
               of a letter from the 
Admiralty with one from the Naval
               Commander in Chief on the Pacific Station asking for
               instructions as to the payment of arrears of Colonial Pay to
               the Detachment of Royal Marines at 
San Juan from 
April 1
               to 
Dec 31 1867.
               
               I am to state for the information of the Secretary of State,
               that as it would appear to My Lords clear from
the
 the correspondence
               which took place in 
1860 that the detachment which was stationed
               at 
St Juan was to be granted extra pay equal to the
               regular pay of the Force, My Lords are of the opinion that the
               men who are serving at that station are entitled to receive
               additional pay granted by the Order in Council of 
August 1867,
               from the date at which such additional pay was granted under
               the provisions of the Order in Council.