I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of
the
5th Instant, informing me that, on the recommendation of
Earl Granville, the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's
Treasury have sanctioned the payment to me of the sum of £110—to
reimburse me the expense of my passage Home from
British
Columbia—and enclosing
the the formal letter to enable me to obtain
the amount from the Paymaster General.