I am directed by the Lords Commissioners of Her
               Majesty's Treasury to acquaint you, for the information
               of 
Sir E.B. Lytton, that under the circumstances stated
               in the 
Earl of Carnarvon's letter of the 
30
                  Ultimo,
               
               Their Lordships will not object to the Officers and Men
               of the Royal Engineers, composing the 
British Columbia
               Expedition, being allowed to receive their extra pay and
               allowances from the day on which they were appointed to
               the Colonial Service to that of their Embarkation.