I have the honor to instruct you that, as the Queen's sanction to
               the Ordinance for increasing the Governor's Salary has been proclaimed,
               you may authorise the payment to 
Governor Seymour's Attorney, 
Mr. D.M.Lang Lang
               Lang
               Lang, Manager of the Bank of 
British Columbia at 
Victoria, of the
               difference between the old and new Salary from the 
11th of April 1865,
               on which day the Ordinance passed, to the 
31st of August 1865, being the
               day on which 
Governor Seymour ceased to draw Salary in the Colony in
               consequence of his departure for England.  
Mr. Seymour has expressed to
               me his wish that this payment be made in the manner I have
above
 above
               directed.