No. 7
Downing Street
4 February 1860
Sir,
I have to acquaint you that the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury have apprized me that Their Lordships have instructed the Paymaster General to accept and pay a bill drawn by you for £2000 as signified in your despatch No. 42 of the 27th of August last, for the erection of barracks consequent uponManuscript imageupon the occupation of San Juan by United States Troops.
I have etc.
Newcastle
Pelham-Clinton, 5th Duke of Newcastle Henry Pelham Fiennes to Douglas, Sir James 4 February 1860, LAC :, 223. 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/V607007.html.

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