R.M. Barracks
Plymouth
3rd June 1861
Sir,
Having been shewn in the Adjutants Office
at these Barracks a scale of pay and allowances granted to the
Officers, Non-Comm
d Officers, and Privates, of the Royal
Marines who served at
Vancouver Island, for a period of 15 or 16
months, and Approved by "
Rear Admiral Sir Robert Lambert
Baynes"—
The amount that I am entitled to as Pay, and Quarter Master on
the Staff, during the whole period, and part of the time as
Captain appearing to be £293—
I have the honor to
request you will be pleased to have the Same
paid into the hands of my Agents Mess
rs W & E.
Chard, 3
Cliffords Inn,
London.
I have the honor to be Sir
Your Most Ob
t Servant
R.P. Henry
Captain Royal Marines (L I)
The Colonial Secretary
Colonial Office
London
Minutes by CO staff
Mr Elliot
Mr Chard has called here about this and I have told him that we
have no means of knowing how much is due to
Capt Henry and that
the Governor has drawn on the Treasury for the pay of the
Marines.
Mr Chard will accordingly inform
Captain Henry that he must apply to the Colonial authorities and it will be
sufficient to answer his present letter to the same effect.
Other documents included in the file
Fortescue to
Henry,
12 June 1861, advising that his
application should be addressed to the colonial government.
Fortescue to
Henry,
25 June 1861, advising that it had
since been ascertained that he should apply to the Admiralty,
Somerset House, for settlement of his claim.