Colonial Despatches
The colonial despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871
Public Offices document
Hamilton, George Alexander to Rogers, Baron Blachford Frederic 23 August 1862, CO 60:14, no. 8402, 278.
Abstract
Hamilton, George Alexander to Rogers, Baron Blachford Frederic 23 August 1862, CO 60:14, no. 8402, 278.
Public Offices document.
Minutes (2), Other documents (1).
Hamilton to Rogers (Permanent Under-Secretary)
Treasury Chambers
23 August 1862
With reference to your letter of the 14 Inst. transmitting
copy of a letter from the Admiralty together with a Statement of
Freight charged by the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company for
conveyance of the Baggage of Officers and Men of the Royal
Engineers proceeding to British Columbia in 1858, I am directed
by the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury to acquaint
you, for the information of the Dukeof
of Newcastle, that My Lords
will be prepared to transfer the amount due for the service in
question to Naval Funds upon receiving an application from the
Board of Admiralty for the same.
of Newcastle, that My Lords
will be prepared to transfer the amount due for the service in
question to Naval Funds upon receiving an application from the
Board of Admiralty for the same.
Other documents included in the file
Draft, Elliot to Secretary to Admiralty, 1 September 1862, advising that Treasury would transfer the sum referred to upon
receipt of an application from the Board of Admiralty.