I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of
the
5 Instant, informing me that, on the recommendation of
Earl Granville, the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's
Treasury have sanctioned the payment to me of the sum of £110—to
reimburse me the expense of my passage Home from
British
Columbia—and enclosing
the the formal letter to enable me to obtain
the amount from the Paymaster General.