Public Offices document.
Minutes (1), Other documents (2).
Hamilton writes Rogers, on behalf of the Treasury,
to inform Newcastle that Gordon had drawn two bills without including an explanation
of what the bills were for. The Treasury requests that Douglasbe instructed
to report the service for which the Bills have been drawn, and to give directions
that the service may be in future specified on all Bills that
may be drawn by the Treasurer or Acting Treasurer of Vancouver's Island, as well as of
British Columbia.
I am directed by the Lords Commissoners of Her Majesty's Treasury to
acquaint you, for the information of the Duke of Newcastle, with
reference to the letter of the Board of 17 Inst, that Their Lordships
have directed the acceptance by the Paymaster General of two further
Bills—No 10 for £1000, and No 11 for £500—which have been drawn by
G.T. Gordon, Treasurer of Vancouver's Island—the service for which
the amounts are drawn not being stated in the Bill.
My Lords presume that these Billshave have been drawn on account of
further expenses connected with the Marines at San Juan, but They
request that the Governor of Vancouver's Island may be instructed to
report the service for which the Bills have been drawn, and to give
directions that the service may be in future specified on all Bills
that may be drawn by the Treasurer or Acting Treasurer of Vancouver's Island, as well as of British Columbia.
Mr Elliot
This letter has crossed one from this office informing the Treasury
that the Gov. has drawn Bills for £3000 for pay of the Marines & that
this pay had been issued on a/c of B. Columbia.
I have ascertained privately at the Treasury that they are still
unable to identify the Bills by the Governors despatches, but that
the Bills have been accepted & paid provisionally out of the Treasury
chest.
All that is necessary to be done now is to explain to the governor
that the pay of the Marines is chargeable to separate accounts in
this Country and to ask him to send a statement of all that he has
drawn hitherto in order that the amount may be properly charged agt
the War Office or the Parliamentary Vote for B. Col. and to tell the
Treasury that this has been done.
Elliot to Hamilton, 14 June 1861, advising that Douglas had been
instructed to furnish particulars for the bills in question and for
all bills drawn in future.
Draft reply, Newcastle to Douglas, No. 59, 12 June 1861,
forwarding the letter from the Treasury and instructing him to furnish particulars of the services for which
you have hitherto drawn Bills on the Paymaster General, and for the future to specify
the service upon the bills themselves.