With reference to your letter of the 
5 Ultimo,
               forwarding a Return of payments made in 
British Columbia
               to certain out Pensioners of Chelsea Hospital, I am
               directed by 
Earl de Grey and Ripon to acquaint you, for
               the information of 
M Secretary Cardwell, that authority
               has been given to the Paymaster General for payment to the
               
Crown Agents of the sum of (£80.19.6) eighty pounds,
               nineteen shillings and sixpence,
the
 the amount of the said disbursement.
               
               I am also directed to acquaint you, with reference to
               the provisional instructions given by the Colonial Government
               for the payment of pension to 
William H. Rowlings, late
               Royal Engineers, that the Secretary to the Hudsons's Bay
               Company, to whom the Pension Documents of the man were
               transmitted in 
August 1862, has been requested to instruct
               the Agent of the Company to forward them to the Secretary
               to the Government of 
British Columbia.