No. 50, Miscellaneous
21 August 1863
I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of Your Grace's Despatch No 26, of the 12th June last, in which I am instructed to direct the Treasurer of British ColumbiatoManuscript image to issue the Superannuation allowance of Joseph Cue, late a Pensioner of the Irish Constabulary at the rate of Twenty nine pounds sterling (£29) per annum from the 1st day of April 1863 inclusive, in conformity with the instructions contained in the papers accompanying your Despatch, and to charge these payments in his account for recovery through the CommissionersofManuscript image of Audit.
I have in reply to inform Your Grace that these instructions will be duly attended to, and the Treasurer has also been instructed to require the Pensioner, on claiming exemption from Income Tax to execute the form of Declaration as regards Income, and to attach the same to the Voucher, as requested bytheManuscript image the Paymaster General.
I have the honor to be
My Lord Duke
Your Grace's most obedient
Humble Servant
James Douglas
Minutes by CO staff
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Copy to Paymaster General with reference to his letter of 8 June.
ABd 14 Octr
At once.
FR 14/10
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Rogers to M.H. Foster, Paymaster General, 21 October 1863, forwarding copy of the despatch for information.
Douglas, Sir James to Pelham-Clinton, 5th Duke of Newcastle Henry Pelham Fiennes 21 August 1863, CO 60:16, no. 9891, 99. 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/B63050.html.

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