Young to Granville

Before leaving British Columbia, and in the absence of any
reply to my appeal against my removal from the Office of
Colonial Secretary of that
Colony, to which Office I had, subsequent to the Union of
Vancouver Island and British Columbia, been appointed under
direct authority from the Secretary of State, I addressed a
letter to the Governor requesting that steps might be taken for
the issue of the necessary instructions to secure to me
payment of the pension or retiring allowance to which I became
entitled on release from Office through the abolition of the
Colony in which I held office.

It is not improbable, owing to subsequent events, that my said
letter may not have been forwarded home, and I, therefore, now
take the liberty of addressing Your Lordship directly on the subject.

The Office which I lost upon the Union, under an Act of the
Imperial Parliament, of the two formerly separate Colonies of
Vancouver Island, and British Columbia, was that of Colonial
Secretary and Senior Member of the Executive Council of
Vancouver Island, appointed thereto by Letters Patent
issued by Warrant under the Royal Sign Manual. The Salary
attached to the Office was Six hundred pounds per annum (£600),
secured upon the Crown Revenues of the Colony. The Salary of
the Governor was the first charge upon those Revenues, that of
Colonial Secretary, the second; but as, prior to Union, the
Governor had been recalled, the Salary of the Colonial Secretary
became consequently, at the time of Union, the first charge.

I have the honor, therefore, very respectfully to request that
Your Lordship will be pleased to authorize the Crown Agents to
make periodical payment to me of such pension or retiring
allowance, subject of course to the usual condition imposed in
similar cases that should I hold further employment under the
Crown, the pension or retiring allowance shall merge or be
reduced pro tanto during the tenure of such employment.

The Union of the Colonies took place in November 1866, but
having held further office up to the 7th April 1869; my pension
or retiring allowance will only be payable from the 8th April
1869, and as I have from this latter date until now been without
Salary, and have been most seriously inconvenienced through the
heavy losses I have sustained in consequence of my summary and
still unexplained removal from such further Office, I trust Your
Lordship will not think me unreasonable in earnestly begging you
to give this my application your early consideration.

In making this application, however, I would beg that it may at
the same time be understood that I do not desire thereby to
disconnect myself from the active service of the Crown, but that
I am simply asking for the means of maintenance to which I am
entitled during my enforced inactivity.