We have the honor to enclose a certificate showing that
               
Colonel R.C. Moody, Royal Engineers, was alive on the 
4 April
               last, and request that an authority may be issued to the Paymaster
               General to pay the amount due to him as Chief Commissioner of Lands
               & Works, 
British Columbia, 
March quarter 1861.
               
               We have the honor to be, Sir,
               
               Your most obedient Servants
               
               
Cox & Co