With reference to your Letter of yesterdays
date,
I am commanded by the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury
to acquaint you that the Paymaster General has been authorized to pay to
Mess
rs Cox & Co on account of
Col Moody RE the sum of £3,000 for
Stores authorized to be purchased for the party of Royal Engineers for
Service in
British Columbia, which were not obtainable from the Tower.