With reference to your despatch No. 52 of the
12th of May last,
I am directed by the Secretary of State to transmit to you the enclosed
copy of a letter from the Emigration Commissioners shewing the steps
that have been taken for sending out to
British Columbia certain women
who had married or engaged to marry some of the Royal Engineers
stationed in
the Colony; as named in the list enclosed in
Colonel
Moody's letter of the
29th of March; you will perceive that these
Women, with certain exceptions,
have proceeded to
Vancouver Island in the
"
Marcella" which left for the Colony on the
12th Instant.
As the cost of these passages will be advanced from Imperial Funds,
I am desired to instruct you to take the necessary measures for
repayment of the amount in the manner authorized by the Secretary of
State's despatch of
thethe
21st of July last, No. 43.