Public Offices document.
Minutes (1), Enclosures (untranscribed) (1), Other documents (1).
Grafton forwards a statement of the Value of Stores supplied by the War Department for … British Columbia and requests the Colonial Office to coordinate repayment to the War Department from British Columbia’s government. Elliot’s minute instructs a letter to be written to the War Department enquiring about the
reasons and circumstances for these Stores.
I am directed by Secretary of State Sir John Pakington to
forward herewith a statement of the Value of Stores supplied by
the War Department for service of the Colonial Government, British
Columbia amounting to £675.2.4.
And I am to request you will move the Duke of Buckingham and
Chandos to direct that the necessary steps may be taken to obtain
a Settlement of the Account with the Colonial Government.
I have the honor to be
Sir
Your Obedient Servant, Douglas Grafton
Minutes by CO staff
Request to be informed at what date, and under what circumstance,
and at whose requisition, these Stores were supplied. Draft.