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.