In reply to your Letter of the
17th Instant, 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, R.E., Commissioner
of Lands & Works in
British Columbia, the sum of £300 for Salary due
to that Officer at the rate of £1,200 per annum for the Quarter
ended
31st March 1861.