In reply to your Letter of the 
17 Instant, I am
               commanded by the 
Lords Commissoners of Her Majesty's Treasury
               to acquaint you that the Paymaster General has been authorized to pay
               to Mess 
Cox & Co on account of 
Co Moody, R.E., Commissioner
               of Lands & Works in 
British Columbia, the sum of £300 for Salary due
               to that Officer at the rate of £1,200 per annum for the Quarter
               ended 
31 March 1861.