With reference to your letter of 
14th Ultimo, I am
               commanded by the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury
               to acquaint you, for the information of 
Mr Secretary
                  Cardwell, that They have given directions to the Paymaster
               General to pay to the Account of the Crown Agents for the
               Colonies the sum of £2937.10
s.6
d being the excess of advances
               made by the Colonial Government of 
British Columbia, in
               respect of the Regimental Pay of the Royal Engineers lately
               serving
in
 in that Colony, over and above the Bills drawn upon England.