No. 45, Military
5 May 1860
My Lord Duke
The acting Colonial Commissary having made requisition on me as by letter herewith enclosed, for the sum of Fifteen Hundred Pounds (£1500), being the necessary outlay in the Military branch of that department for the 2nd quarter of the present year, I have the honour to Manuscript image to acquaint your Grace that not having funds in the Colonial Chest to meet this demand, I have instructed the Treasurer to procure the above named sum by Bills on Her Majesty's Paymaster General, and I trust your Grace will be pleased to obtain the necessary authority from the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury, for the Bills presented on this account to be paid, when they become due Manuscript image due.
I have etc.
James Douglas
Minutes by CO staff
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Treasury—recommendg payment.
ABd 25/6
TFE 25 June
CF 26
N 28
Documents enclosed with the main document (not transcribed)
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W.D. Gosset, Colonial Commissariat, to W.A.G. Young, Acting Colonial Secretary, 3 May 1860, requesting further funds for the outlay of the Royal Engineers.
Other documents included in the file
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Draft, Rogers to G.A. Hamilton, Treasury, 6 July 1860, forwarding copy of the despatch and recommending the bills be accepted and paid.
Douglas, Sir James to Pelham-Clinton, 5th Duke of Newcastle Henry Pelham Fiennes 5 May 1860, CO 60:7, no. 6339, 227. 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/B60045.html.

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