Colonial Despatches
The colonial despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871
Correspondence (private letter)
Moody, Richard Clement to Carnarvon, Earl 21 September 1858, CO 60:3, no. 9725, 286.
Abstract
Correspondence (private letter).
Minutes (2), Other documents (2).
Moody requests payment for a Staff Assistant Surgeon.
The minutes
repairthis omission by contacting the Treasury for payment.
The minutes
repairthis omission by contacting the Treasury for payment. Enclosed is the Colonial Office to the Treasury requesting that the appropriate advance be issued to the assistant surgeon; and the Colonial Office advising that the advance had been recommended by the Treasury.
Moody to Carnarvon (Parliamentary Under-Secretary)
Topographical Office, War Dept
4 New Street, Spring Gardens
21st Sepr 1858
4 New Street, Spring Gardens
My Lord
I am informed that the Staff Asst
Surgeon
1
who accompanied
the Expedition to British Columbia is to receive the colonial pay
of a Subaltern viz £250 per annum. I have the honour therefore
to request this same may be likewise included in the list forwarded to
you on the 15th
instant
2
for the advance of 120 days pay and
that it may be credited into the same at Messrs Cox & Co.
Minutes by CO staff
Mr Merivale
This omission should, I apprehend, be repaired, and the Treasury requested to cause the necessary advance to be issued to the Surgeon.
This omission should, I apprehend, be repaired, and the Treasury requested to cause the necessary advance to be issued to the Surgeon.
ABd
23 Sep
Annex dt.
HM
S 23
Other documents included in the file
Draft, Colonial Office to C.E. Trevelyan, Treasury, 27 September 1858, requesting that the appropriate advance be issued to the assistant
surgeon.
Draft, Colonial Office to Moody, 27 September 1858, advising that
the advance had been recommended to Treasury.
Footnotes
- The assistant surgeon was J.B. Seddall, who accompanied the main body of the detachment to British Columbia. First name??
- = 15 I.e, Moody to Merivale (Permanent Under-Secretary), 15 September 1858, 9486, CO 60/3, p. 275.