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.