Moody to Carnarvon (Parliamentary Under-Secretary)
Topographical Office, War Dept
4 New Street, Spring Gardens
21st Sepr 1858
My Lord
I am informed that the Staff Asst Surgeon 1 who accompanied the Expedition to British Columbia is to receive the colonial pay of a Subaltern viz £250 per annum. I have the honour therefore to request this same may be likewise included in the list forwarded to you on the 15th instant 2 for the advance of 120 days pay and that it may be credited into the same at Messrs Cox & Co.
I have the honor to be My Lord
Yr Most Obedt Servant
R.C. Moody
Col. R.E.

Lord Carnarvon
Under Secy of State
Minutes by CO staff
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Mr Merivale
This omission should, I apprehend, be repaired, and the Treasury requested to cause the necessary advance to be issued to the Surgeon.
ABd 23 Sep
Annex dt.
HM S 23
Other documents included in the file
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Draft, Colonial Office to C.E. Trevelyan, Treasury, 27 September 1858, requesting that the appropriate advance be issued to the assistant surgeon.
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Draft, Colonial Office to Moody, 27 September 1858, advising that the advance had been recommended to Treasury.
Moody, Colonel Richard Clement to Carnarvon, Earl 21 September 1858, CO 60:3, no. 9725, 286. The Colonial Despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871, Edition 2.0, ed. James Hendrickson and the Colonial Despatches project. Victoria, B.C.: University of Victoria. https://bcgenesis.uvic.ca/B586M08.html.

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