Hamilton to Under-Secretary of State
Treasury Chambers
11 July 1867
Sir,
I am desired by the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury to acquaint you that a Bill for £1,500 drawn by the Governor & Treasurer of Vancouver Island for Pay &c of Royal Marines on San Juan Island has been left at the Office of the Paymaster-General, and I am to request that you will move the Secretary of State to inform My Lords whether this Bill should be accepted and paid.
I am. Sir,
Your obedient Servant,
G.A. Hamilton
Minutes by CO staff
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Sir F. Rogers
This is the usual 1/2 yearly payment for the Marines at S. Juan—it is a charge payable from Imperial Funds. We have not as yet recd the usual notification from the Govr of the drawing of this Bill—but his despatches have stopped somewhere on the road. AnswerManuscript image in the affirmative.
CC 12 July
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At once.
FR 12/7
Other documents included in the file
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Rogers to Secretary to the Treasury, 15 July 1867, authorizing payment of the bill.
Hamilton, George Alexander to Adderley, C. B. 11 July 1867, CO 60:31, no. 6619, 63. 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/B675TE09.html.

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