I beg to acknowledge the receipt of your Lordships despatch of
20 April 1851, enclosing
Copy to Govmt for informn 20 Nov/51
a copy of a letter from the secretary of
the Lords commissioners of the
Admiralty, and desiring me to pay to
Captain Wellesly of H.M. Ship
Daedalus the sum of £47,15,0, for the expenses of a passage that was afforded me in that ship,
in
September and
October last.
As I presume that your Lordship in observing that you did not
consider it as an expence that ought to be paid by the public, referred
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to the terms of the grant of
Vancouvers Island to the Hudson's bay Company, by which they are bound to defray all expenses of the
settlement I have forwarded a copy of your Lordships letter to the
Governor and Directors of that company requesting them to make the
payment, for no funds are at my disposal as Governor,