Young to Under-Secretary of State
Walmer, Kent
19h August 1864
Sir,
I have the honor to request that you will be pleased to move the Right Honourable Her Majesty's principal Secretary of State for the Colonies, to issue the requisite authority to the Crown Agents for the Colonies, for the payment periodically to my Agents Messrs Woodhead & Co of 44 Charing Cross, of the Half Salary due to me while on leave of absence from the Colony of Vancouver's Island, commencingonManuscript image on and from the 15th May 1864.
I have the honor to be
Sir
Your most obedient
and humble Servant
William A.G. Young
Colonial Secretary
of Vancouver's Island

Her Majesty's Under Secretary of State
for the Colonies
Minutes by CO staff
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Mr Elliot
Instruct the Agents to issue the 1/2 Salary due to Mr Young & inform the Govr.
VJ 20 Aug
Drafts.
TFE 20/8
Other documents included in the file
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Elliot to Crown Agents, 26 August 1864, authorizing them to issue the 1/2 pay due to Young.
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Elliot to Young, 26 August 1864, advising that the Crown Agents had been instructed to remit the salary due as per his instructions.