<persName ref="prs:disraeli_b"><surname>Disraeli</surname>, <forename>Benjamin</forename></persName> to <persName ref="prs:lytton_egeb"><surname>Lytton</surname>, <forename>Edward</forename> <forename>George</forename> <forename>Earle</forename> <forename>Bulwer</forename></persName> 18 October 1858, CO 60:2, no. 10896, 174. Disraeli addressee Lytton

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Public Offices document. Minutes (1).

Disraeli addresses the difference between the Colonial Office and the War Office regarding the regimental pay of officers stationed at British Columbia. Disraeli agrees with the CO that the War Office should pay the regimental pay, while the Colonial Office pays the working or extra pay.

The minutes prepare and annex a draft on the subject.

 Disraeli, Benjamin
Downing St
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Disraeli to Lytton 10896, CO 60/2, p. 174; registered 22 October
Downing St
18 October 1858 Dear Sir Edward,

I have received your letter of the 14th inst, inst, L-Disraeli, 14 Oct 58, RE regimental pay from WO FIND ?? Lytton to Disraeli, 14 October 1858. Cf. Carnarvon to Moody, 14 October 1858, in Trevelyan to Merivale (Permanent Under-Secretary), 7 October 1858, 10236, CO 60/2, p. 273. on the subject of a difference, which has arisen between the War Office and yourself, with respect to the regimental pay of the Officers and Men, of the British Columbian Expedition.

It was understood that the regimental pay of the detachment of Royal Engineers, sent to British Columbia, should be paid by the War Office, and that the working, or extra, pay, although advanced from imperial funds, should be repaid by the Colony. This arrangement is in accordance with previous practice, and appears to me to be reasonable and just, for military protection ought, at any rate, in the first instance, to be givenby by the Mother Country.

An increase in the Corps of Royal Engineers, equal to the detachment ordered to the new Colony, having been sanctioned by the Treasury, in anticipation of a Parliamentary Vote, I am unable to understand the grounds, upon which the War Office has appealed to you, to charge your Department with an expenditure, for which provision has already been made. The War Office cannot be entitled to the double payment by the Treasury and the Colonial Office, which it demands, and I have, therefore, no hesitation in expressing my concurrence in the view, which you have taken of this claim.

Believe me etc. B. Disraeli
I have prepared, & annex a draft for consn on this subject. ABd 26 Octr