With reference to your Letter of the
16th Inst.,
relative to a Bill drawn by
Mr W.A. Young, Colonial
Secretary in
British Columbia, for the sum of £250; I am
directed by the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury,
to acquaint you, for the information of the
Duke of Newcastle,
that the Paymaster General has been instructed to accept and
pay the Bill in question.
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I am to add that the Bill is stated to be drawn for the
service of the Government of
Vancouver's Island, and that
Their Lordships presume that it has reference to some
expenditure distinct from the service of
British Columbia.