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Otway to Under-Secretary of State

I am directed by the Earl of Clarendon to transmit to you, to be
laid before Earl Granville copy of a note from the Belgian
Minister, requesting that a document may be obtained from a
person named Verheyden, supposed to be at Victoria, Vancouver's
Island, containing his consent to the marriage of his daughter,
or that, if he is dead, a certificate of his death may be procured.

If the required papers can be supplied they should be legalized
and the signature attached to them duly verified and any
expences incurred will be repaid by the Belgian Legation.



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Romaine to Under-Secretary of State

I am commanded by My Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to
acquaint you, for the information of Earl Granville, that a
Letter has been received from Rear Adml The Hon. G. Hastings,
dated the 10th Novr/68 No. 201, in which he states, that he
had made arrangements with His Excellency Governor Seymour, for
affording assistance in Case of any Fenian Attempt being made on
the Colony, and had despatched the "Forward" Gun Boat to remain
in the Harbour of Victoria, for the present, to aid the Civil
Power in Case of Emergency.



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Romaine to Under-Secretary of State

I am commanded by my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to
transmit herewith, for the information of the Secretary of State
for the Colonies, a copy of a letter from Rear Admiral Hastings,
dated the 9th November No 198, reporting his having detailed a
Guard of Marines to be mounted at Government House, Victoria,
for the protection of the Governor during the unsettled state of
Affairs in connection with the rumoured Fenian Attempts in the
Colony.

The Guard will be removed so soon as the present difficulty has
subsided.



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No. 1

I transmit to you a copy of a letter from the Foreign Office
enclosing a copy of a Note from the Belgian Minister requesting that a
document may be obtained from a person named Verheyden, supposed to be
at Victoria Vancouver Island, containing his consent to the marriage of
his daughter, or if he is dead that a Certificate of his death may be
procured.

I have to request you to endeavour to meet the wishes of the
Belgian Minister.



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Trevor to Under-Secretary of State

With reference to a letter of the 13th July 1868 addressed to
this Office by the Colonial Secretary at Vancouvers Island, copy
of which is enclosed stating that he had returned two fountain
Lamps for Fisguard

Lighthouse and requesting that two Moderator Lamps might be sent
out in lieu thereof I am directed by the Board of Trade to
acquaint you for the information of Earl Granville that a case
containing two moderator lamps has been delivered to the Crown
Agents for transmission to the Colony, and to request that the
same may be intimated to the Governor of Vancouvers Island.

I am at the same time to transmit a copy of a letter from
Messrs Wilkins & Co upon the subject of fountain Lamps having
been sent out for Fisguard Lighthouse instead of Moderator Lamps.



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No. 2

I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch No.
116 of the 4th November enclosing in reply to my predecessor's despatch
No. 56 of the 28th July last, a copy of a letter from the Acting
Colonial Secretary in reference to Mr. Lowenberg's title to the plot of
land at Victoria known as Lot Z.

I have to request you to inform Mr. Young that I am satisfied with
his statement.



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No. 3

I have the honor to transmit to you, for your information, a copy
of a letter from the Board of Trade, reporting that two Moderator Lamps
have been delivered to the Crown Agents for transmission to British
Columbia. These Lamps are in substitution for the two fountain Lamps
which were supplied for the Fisguard Lighthouse, but which are described
by the Acting Colonial Secretary as being unsuitable for that purpose.



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No. 4

I observe that no mention is made in your Despatch of the 2nd of
October of the receipt of my Predecessor's circular Despatch of the 6th
of August, I therefore transmit to you a Copy of that Despatch and I
have to request that you will inform me whether you have already received
it.



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No. 1

I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of Your Grace's
despatch of 28th November 1868 forwarding the undermentioned
Parliamentary Papers.

*



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No. 2

I have had the honor to receive Your Grace's despatch No 101
of the 30th November enclosing a report from Admiral
Hastings Commanding the Pacific Squadron, of a visit to the
Interior of the Colony and the great difficulty which would
attend the transport of an armed force to Cariboo.

2. Nobody is more aware than I of the difficulty which would
attend a naval or military interference with the miners in that
distant region; and when pressed by the local magistrate for an
armed force in 1867 I proceeded in person to the scene of
disturbance, and made no application for assistance to Admiral Hastings.

3. I sincerely trust that all is quiet now in the gold districts.



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No. 3

I have the honor to acknowledge this day the receipt of your
despatches, of the numbers and dates noted in the margin on the
annexed sheet.

*



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No. 4

I have the honor to forward a letter from Rear Admiral Hastings
expressive of his belief that it is unnecessary that local
brevet rank should be conferred on the Officer in command of the
force stationed at San Juan.

2. I have already informed Your Grace that I did not consider
my note of the 23rd of November 1868 in the light of a
public paper. It was carelessly written.

3. As regards the question at issue, it is not one of much
importance. Mr Seward, however in applying through Mr
Thornton for the indifference of the English Government to the
appointment of Major Allen seems to have recognized the
principle that the Officers Commanding the two forces on San
Juan Island should be of equal rank.

4. I must venture to adhere to the opinion I expressed as to
the propriety of this arrangement, but I learn from Admiral
Hastings that there are difficulties in carrying it out.



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Watson to Secretary of State

I have the honor to transmit, herewith, copy of correspondence
which I have had with His Excellency the Governor on the subject
of my claims for compensation for loss of office through the
operation of an Act of the Imperial Parliament uniting the
Colonies of British Columbia and Vancouver Island and to request
that the merits of my application dated the 3rd August 1867 may
receive Your Lordship's early and, I trust, favourable consideration.



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Hammond to Under-Secretary of State

I have laid before The Earl of Clarendon your letter of the
13th instant, inclosing a copy of a letter from the
Representatives of the Canadian Government in this Country
respecting the Island of San Juan; and I have to request that
you will state to Earl Granville that the question respecting
the proper interpretation of the Treaty of 1846 between this
Country and the United States, in its application to the Island
of San Juan, has long been in discussion between the two
Governments, and that Lord Clarendon trusts that an arrangment
into which he has entered with the United States' Minister in
this Country will ensure the matter being at an early period
referred to the arbitration of a friendly state.

I inclose, Confidentially, for Earl Granville's information, a
copy of a Convention in which that arrangment is recorded, and
which was signed yesterday at this Office, but I have to observe
that, until it has been ratified, this Convention should not be
Communicated to any party whatever.



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Grafton to Under-Secretary of State

With reference to the letters from this office of 22 June
1867 54/Emign/2549 and 13 Novr 1867 relative
to a Claim for Stores supplied by the War Department to the
Colonial Government, British Columbia amounting to
£675.2.4,
I am now directed by Mr Secretary Cardwell to request you will
state whether any steps have been taken towards the settlement
of the said Claim.

*



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No. 5

I am greatly obliged for the information conveyed in Your
Grace's Confidential despatch of the 14th of November
respecting the assumed power of the Governor to reserve bills
for Her Majesty's consideration.
I need not say that the directions it contains shall be strictly obeyed.

2. It was, however, never my thought that Her Majesty would
take a part in our Legislation further than directing me,
through Your Grace to assent or not to assent to a bill passed
by the Legislative Council.



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Confidential

With reference to my despatch No. 4 of the 14th instant I
would beg leave to say that I should be glad to be informed by
Your Grace what are the relative positions of the Naval
Commander in Chief and of the Governor in regard to the affairs
of San Juan during our Military occupation of the North end of
the Island.



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Otway to Under-Secretary of State

I am directed by the Earl of Clarendon to transmit to you to be
laid before Earl Granville the accompanying Document which the
Consul for Baden has requested may be forwarded to the address
of Christian Friedrich Weisshaar, joiner, Victoria, British
Columbia. The Consul is further anxious that Weisshaar's
signature should be procured if possible to the inclosed form of
receipt.



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Telegram

A Telegram has been received from Governor Seymour dated
Victoria Jany 18, stating that there is an improvement in the
Revenue, that the Legislative Body is in Session and that
everything is tranquil.



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No. 6

Ackg receipt of Despatches.



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No. 7

I have had the honor to receive Your Grace's despatch No 100
of the 25th November, respecting the postal arrangements
which exist on the part of British Columbia with the United
Kingdom, the Dominion of Canada, and the United States.

2. The local Government feel very grateful to Your Grace for
the trouble you have taken in this matter.

3. I have the honor to enclose the Returns called for by Your
Grace.

4. Perhaps you would kindly direct the amount due to the Colony
to be placed to it's credit with the Crown Agents.



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No. 5

I have the honor to transmit to you a Copy of a letter from the
Foreign Office enclosing a document from the Consul for Baden for
transmission to Christian Friedrick Weisshaar, joiner Victoria Van
Couvers Island.

I request that you will be so good as to cause that document to be
forwarded to its destination, and that you will endeavour to procure an
acknowledgment of its receipt from the person for whom it is intended.

The signature to this receipt should be properly attested, and
should be verified by you in the manner pointed out at page 58 of the
Colonial Regulations.



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No. 6

I have the honor to transmit to you a copy of a letter from the War
Office and to request that you will issue such instructions as will
ensure the payment at Vancouvers Island of the Pension therein specified
to James Sullivan lately of the Royal Horse Artillery.



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No. 8

I have had the honor of receiving your Lordship's circular
despatch of the 9th December 1868, notifying that Her
Majesty had entrusted to the Care of His Lordship the Seals of the
Colonial Department.



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No. 9

Ackg. receipt of Despatches.



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No. 10

The account of this Government in respect of the Royal Marines
stationed at San Juan Island being now overpaid, I have the
honor to acquaint you that I have authorized a Bill for fifteen
hundred pounds Sterling (£1,500) to be drawn in the usual manner on
the Paymaster General and I have to request that Your Lordship will
be pleased to cause the same to be accepted on presentation.



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Briggs to Under-Secretary of State

I am commanded by My Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to
transmit herewith, for the information of Earl Granville, copy
of a letter they have addressed to Rear Adml The Honourable G.
Hastings, desiring him to make Valparaiso his future Head
Quarters as Naval Commander in Chief in the Pacific, but to keep
some of the ships under his Orders in the neighbourhood of
British Columbia.



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Lampson to Sandford (Assistant Under-Secretary)

I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Letter of
the 14th Inst. transmitting an Extract of a despatch from the
Governor of British Columbia, and a Copy of a report by Mr
Young the Acting Colonial Secretary in reply to Mr Lowenberg's
statement—that the local Government would continue to dispute
his title to a piece of land in Victoria known as lot Z.

In requesting you will convey to Earl Granville the thanks of
the Committee of the Hudson's Bay Company for these
communications, I have to express their satisfaction to find that
the matter in dispute, which involved much Correspondence, has
been finally settled.



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No. 11

Referring to the despatches noted in the margin

*

stating that Mr James Cooper's services as Harbor Master were
scarcely required by the Colony, I have now the honor to mention that
that Gentleman has resigned his office and receives eighteen
months full salary as compensation.

2. I have always been satisfied with Mr Coopers' services
as a public officer, and I have given him a letter to that
effect. He has however no claims upon Your Lordship's patronage.



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No. 12

I have had the honor to receive the Duke of Buckingham &
Chandos' Circular despatch of 1st September requiring
information respecting the telegraphic system in operation in
British Columbia.

2. I now forward a Map shewing the course of the line of cable
and wire.

3. The telepraph belongs to an American company. It was
established with a view of communicating with Asia and Europe by
way of Behring's Straits. But the successful laying of the
Atlantic Cable has caused the abandonment of the work. The line
between Quesnelmouth on the Fraser River, and the Skeena River
is now utterly useless. That between Victoria and Cariboo, I
fear hardly pays the working expenses.

4. The system in operation is that known by the name of "Morse's."

5. It would be ungrateful of me to close this despatch without
bearing testimony to the extreme liberality of the Western Union
Company to whom the Wire belongs. My Messages pass free to all
parts of the line; and in San Francisco, where, not choosing to
use the concession accorded to me, the money I paid, as a
stranger, was returned to the hotel where I was staying in less
than half an hour.



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No. 13

I have the honor to forward copy of a letter addressed to me by
Major Foster, Soliciting me to recommend him to Your Lordship
for public employment. I enclose copies of testimonials he has
sent me from Sir Richard Airly and Sir William Codrington.

2. Major Foster has never served under me, and I cannot, of
course speak of his efficiency from personal knowledge. I
believe however that Governor Kennedy was fully satisfied with
the manner in which he performed the duties entrusted to him.

3. I have had no patronage here. Indeed my duty has been
principally confined to dismissing Public Officers and reducing
salaries.



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Lugard to Under-Secretary of State

I am directed by Mr Secretary Cardwell to request that you will
move the Secretary of State for the Colonies to cause the
pension of the man named in the Margin,

*

whose parchment certificate and descriptive particulars are enclosed,
to be paid to him at Vancouvers Island.



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No. 7

I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch No.
132 of the 12th December enclosing a copy of the Ordinance of your
legislature No. 31 of 1867, entitled "An Ordinance respecting
Practioners in Medicine and Surgery" and stating that it will be
perceived that the provisions of that enactment are not at variance with
the views of the Imperial Government. I am unable, however, to assent
to this opinion, since by the 4th section of the Ordinance a person is
not entitled to be registered who cannot produce a Diploma or License
from a School, Society or College, where a compulsory course of study of
not less than three years is made a condition precedent to Colonial
registration. It is clear, however, from the terms of the proviso at
the end of the 3d. section of the Medical Act Amendment Act 1868 (31
Vict. C. 29) that no condition of any kind except the payment of fees
and proof of registration under the Medical Act of 1858 can be imposed
upon those who have registered under the last mentioned Act.

The Ordinance therefore requires amendment, and I have to desire
you to take the necessary steps to bring it into conformity with the
Imperial Legislation upon this subject.



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No. 8

I have the honor to inform you that on the 20th Ultimo I received
your Telegram dated Victoria 18th January stating that there was an
improvement in the Revenue, that the Legislative Body was in Session,
and that everything was tranquil.



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Murray to Under-Secretary of State

With reference to your letter of the 29th ultimo respecting the
wish expressed by the Governor of British Columbia to learn the
nature of the Treaty of Reciprocity which would be proposed to
the United States; I am directed by the Earl of Clarendon to
request that you will bring under Earl Granville's notice the
despatch from Lord Monck of which copy was inclosed in your
letter of the 6th of November setting forth the Grounds on
which he considered that it would be unadvisable to make
proposals in this matter to the Government of the United States,
until that Government should have taken the initiative in regard
to it.

Since the date of your letter no further information on the
subject has been received from Mr Thornton and the whole
subject appears to be in abeyance at present.



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No. 9

I transmit to you for your information, a Copy of a letter from the
Admiralty with a Copy of a letter addressed by their Lordships to Rear
Admiral the Honorable G. Hastings desiring him to make Valparaiso his
future head quarters as Naval Commander in Chief in the Pacific but to
keep one of the ships under his orders in the Neighbourhood of British
Columbia.



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No. 10

I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch No.
125 of the 30th November enclosing a letter addressed to you by certain
delegates from a convention held at Yale enclosing copies of Resolutions
and an address on the subject of the admission of British Columbia into
the Dominion of Canada, the desirability of immediately establishing
Representative Institutions with responsible Government in the Colony,
and the necessity for retrenchment in the Public Expenditure.

Your despatch also encloses what appear to be certain
advertisements signed by persons in Victoria who declare that those
delegates have not in any way received authority to represent their
opinions or desires.



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No. 14

With reference to the Duke of Buckingham's despatches No 89 of
the 21 October and No 90 of the 22 October 1868, on the subject
of a treaty for a commercial reciprocity between the North
American Colonies and the United States, I have the honor to
forward a copy of the paragraph in my opening speech by which I
brought the subject under the consideration of the Legislative Council.

2. I add the Resolutions adopted.



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No. 15

I have the honor to forward the Minutes of the Executive Council
for the half year ended 31 December 1868.



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Otway to Under-Secretary of State

With reference to your Letter of the 4th Instant, I am directed
by the Earl of Clarendon to request that you will state to Earl
Granville that the Observations of Governor Seymour in regard to
the Extension to British Columbia of the Terms of a Reciprocity
Treaty if negotiated with the United States will be borne in Mind.



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No. 11

I have to acknowledge the receipt of your Despatch of the 12th
December, No. 130, reporting the reconstitution of the Legislative
Council of British Columbia.

I have to convey to you The Queen's approval of the gentlemen you
have nominated as Members, as well as of those who were recommended to
you by the people for Seats in the Council.

I would however point out to you that the official element of the
Council which was created by the additional Instructions of the 31st
July 1863 does not expire by efflux of time.

By those Instructions the Officers temporarily acting for the time
being as Colonial Secretary, Attorney General, Treasurer, Chief
Commissioner of Land and Works and Collector of Customs are made during
Her Majesty's Pleasure Members of the Legislative Council; and no new
appointments are needed or proper in these cases. I may further point
out that the Officer for the time being holding the Office of Postmaster
General, not being mentioned in the additional Instructions before
referred to, cannot be considered an ex officio Member and the
appointment of Mr. Bushby was therefore a provisional appointment only.



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Hammond to Under-Secretary of State

I am directed by The Earl of Clarendon to transmit to you, to be
laid before Earl Granville, a copy of a despatch from Her
Majesty's Minister at Washington, respecting the San Juan
Boundary Question.



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Walrond to Under-Secretary of State

James Reed Macadam, now a candidate for the situation of Writer
at Liverpool in the Department of Her Majesty's Customs, having
stated that he was employed as Warder and Gaoler in Vancouver's
Island from April 1864 to November 1867, and that he received no
Discharge on leaving the Colonial Convict Service.

I am directed by the Civil Service Commissioners to request that
you will favor them by informing me whether his character was in
all respects satisfactory during the period of his Service and
whether his health was good.



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Tilley to Rogers (Permanent Under-Secretary)

I have laid before the Postmaster General your letter of the
6th instant, enclosing the copy of a despatch from the Governor
of British Columbia, dated 21st Decr last, on the subject of
the new postal arrangements between this country and British Columbia.

Mr Seymour refers to a communication lately made by this
Department to the Colonial Postmaster General, in which it is
stated that letters posted in England, whether paid or unpaid,
will be forwarded to British Columbia, and a suggestion is made
that the same course should be followed in the Colony with
respect to letters for this Country; and he points out that the
system of compulsory prepayment, proposed in the Duke of
Montrose's letter to the Treasury of the 12th August 1867,
would be much more convenient to the Colony.

I am desired by the Marquis of Hartington to request that you
will inform Earl Granville that when the Governor's despatch of
the 21st Ultimo was written, he had evidently not received a
copy of the letter which I wrote to you on this subject on the
11th November last, explaining the reason why it would not be
expedient to make the prepayment compulsory upon letters between
this country and British Columbia.

On receipt of that letter the Governor will no doubt concur in
the arrangements proposed by this Office.



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No. 12

I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your Despatch No.
124 of the 30th November on the Subject of including British Columbia in
any treaty of reciprocity which may be made with the United States. The
question is for the moment in abeyance, but your observations have been
brought under the notice of the Earl of Clarendon who states that they
will be borne in mind.



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No. 13

I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your Despatch No.
138 of the 21st December, respecting the new postal arrangements with
the Colony and suggesting the compulsory prepayment of letters.

In reply I have to refer you to my Predecessor's Despatch No. 100
of the 25th November, enclosing a copy of a letter from the Post Office
explaining the reason why it would not be expedient to make the
prepayment of postage compulsory on letters passing between England and
the Colony.



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Romaine to Under-Secretary of State

I am commanded by My Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to
acquaint you for the information of Earl Granville that a Letter
has been received from Rear Admiral The Hon. G. Hastings dated
1st Janry/69 No. 1 in which he stated that he had despatched
the "Sparrowhawk" to Salt Spring (Admiralty) Island, between
Esquimalt and Nanaimo, to support the local authorities in the
maintenance of order; a murder having been lately committed
there and a somewhat unsatisfactory state of affairs existing
amongst the settlers and the Indians in that neighbourhood.



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No. 14

I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your Despatch No.
127 of 30th November enclosing a Petition to Her Majesty from the
Municipal Council of New Westminster, and a Copy of one which will be
presented to both Houses of Parliament from the same body claiming
compensation on account of the removal of the Capital of the Colony to
Victoria, and complaining that the New Westminster Land Fund has not
been employed in the improvement of the Roads and Streets.

I have been unable to advise Her Majesty that the Memorialists'
claim for compensation is well founded.

When New Westminster was proclaimed the Capital of British
Columbia, I am not aware that the Government gave, or was asked to give,
any pledge that the Capital would never under any circumstances be
removed. It is indeed evident that if any such pledge had been asked it
would have been peremptorily refused, or if made by the Governor would
have been disallowed by the Home Government.

It is indispensable that the Supreme Power in a young Country
should remain at liberty to change the Site of the Capital, if necessary
on Sanitary, political or Commercial, or any other sufficient grounds,
and every land purchaser in the neighbourhood of a Capital buys his land
subject to this possibility, and though his natural expectations that
the determination of Government will not be hastily reversed are
entitled to all practicable consideration from the Government, yet he
can have no claim to indemnity in case these expectations are
disappointed.

Much therefore as I regret any losses which have been sustained by
the purchasers of land in New Westminster, I cannot recommend Her
Majesty to comply with the Memorial from the Municipal Council of that
place.

With regard to the misapplication of the Land Fund, I have to
observe that no documents are referred to either in support of the
allegation that the purchase money of Town lots in New Westminster was
to be devoted to improving Streets and Roads in the City or of the
allegation that they have not been so devoted.

On these points the first step of the Memorialists should be to
bring their case before the Legislative Council through those Gentlemen
by whom they are substantially represented in that body, and it would be
for the local Government to consider, at least in the first instance, by
what form of enquiry the grievance should be ascertained, and for the
local Legislature to provide for its removal.



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Hammond to Under-Secretary of State

With reference to my letter of the 8th instant, I am directed
by the Earl of Clarendon to transmit to you, for the information
of Earl Granville a copy of a despatch from Her Majesty's
 Minister at Washington, inclosing a copy of the Memorial
presented to the American Senate praying that they would not
consent to the question of the water Boundary of British
Columbia being submitted to arbitration.



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No. 15

I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your Despatch No. 131
of the 12th December on the subject of Mr. Hankin's claim to half Salary
from the date of his embarkation to British Columbia.

Under the circumstances of Mr. Young's appointment it appears to me
that he was entitled to expect that he would continue to receive full
pay as Colonial Secretary until you had been given notice that another
arrangement was to be made, that is to say in the present instance until
the 21st November. From that date until Mr. Hankin's arrival he his
only entitled to receive half Salary, and Mr. Hankin should receive the
other half.

Mr. Hankin is of course entitled to receive full pay as Colonial
Secretary from the date of his arrival in the Colony.



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Romaine to Under-Secretary of State

I am commanded by My Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to
send you, herewith, for the information of Earl Granville, copy
of a Letter from Rear Admiral The Hon. G. Hastings dated 26
Decr 1868, No. 236, with Copy of its enclosure relative to an
inspection of the Ports situated in Puget Sound, Vancouver's
Island by Captain Dawkins & Lieut. Ching [?] of H.M.S. "Zealous."



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No. 16

I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of Your Lordship's
despatch of 8th January, forwarding the undermentioned
Parliamentary papers.

"Consuls Commercial Reports Nos 11 & 12 of 1868. Ditto in
China, Japan & Siam 1866 - 1868. Two copies."



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Tilley to Rogers (Permanent Under-Secretary)

With reference to your letter of the 26th September last, and
to that part of my reply of the 11th November, in which I
stated that the Postmaster General would at once place himself
in communication with the United States' Post Office, in order
to obtain, if possible, better terms for the Colony of British
Columbia in dividing the postage upon correspondence transmitted
between that Colony and the United States, I am directed by the
Marquis of Hartington to transmit to you, to be laid before Earl
Granville, copy of a correspondence which has taken place
between this Department and the United States' Post Office upon
the subject.

By the letter from Washington dated 29th January, it would
appear that the Government of British Columbia is mistaken in
supposing that the United States' Post Office pays nothing
towards the maintenance of Mail Packet communication with the Colony.

The terms proposed by the United States' Post Office for the
exchange of Mails with British Columbia are as follows:

1. The single rate of inter-national postage on letters
exchanged in either direction to be
6 cents per half ounce or under if prepaid, and 10 cents if unpaid.

2. Newspapers and printed matter of all kinds despatched from
either side to the other to be subject to the regular domestic
rates of postage to and from the frontier in the United States
and in the Colonies respectively.

3. No postage accounts to be kept between the respective
Offices on the correspondence exchanged; each Office retaining
to its exclusive use all the postage it collects both upon
prepaid matter sent and unpaid matter received.

I am to request that Earl Granville will be good enough to
communicate these proposals to the Governor of British Columbia,
instructing him to state whether he agrees to them, and, if so,
on what date he will be prepared to carry them into effect.

Sufficient time, say three months at least, should be allowed to
enable this Department to communicate to the United States' Post
Office the date fixed upon and also to enable that Office to
issue the necessary instructions on the subject.



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No. 17

With reference to Your Lordship's despatch No 4 of the 30th of
December I have to state that I have directed an immediate
remittance of two thousand pounds (£2000) to be made to the Crown
Agents.

2. We are anxiously working through a period of intense
depression. But I think that when the railroad is made across
the continent British Columbia will recover to a certain extent
her former prosperity.

3. To shew my zeal to keep up the credit of the Colony, I may
mention that I am now five months without Salary.



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No. 18

I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of Your Lordship's
despatch of the 8th January 1869, forwarding the undermentioned
Parliamentary Papers:

"Reports of Secretaries of Embassy & Legation Nos 3 to 6 of
1868. 2 copies."



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No. 19

I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt on 12th Inst. of
Your Lordship's despatches as follows:

Originals No. 2, 21 December, and No. 3, 22 December 1868.

Circular 5.

Duplicates No. 1, 12 December 1868.

Circular 9.



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No. 20

I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt on 17th Inst. of
Your Lordship's despatches as given below.

*



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No. 21

I have the honor to transmit herewith, to Your Lordship the
accounts of receipt and Expenditure up to 31st December 1868,
with the necessary vouchers, for Services in connection with the
military occupation of San Juan.



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No. 16

I have the honor to transmit to you with reference to my
Predecessor's despatch No. 100 of the 25th November a copy of a letter
from the Post Office enclosing copies of a correspondence with the
Postmaster General of the United States on the subject of the division
of postage on correspondence passing between British Columbia and the
United States.

I request that you will inform me whether your Government is
prepared to accept the proposals made by the United States Government,
and if so on what date you will be prepared to carry them into effect.



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Hammond to Under-Secretary of State

In reply to your letter of the 24th instant, I am directed by
The Earl of Clarendon to transmit to you, in compliance with
your request, three copies of the Convention respecting San Juan
which was recently signed by Lord Clarendon and the United
States Minister at this Court.

I am, however, to request that you will state to Earl Granville
that Lord Clarendon would suggest that this Convention should
not be sent, as proposed by Lord Granville, to the Governors of
Canada and British Columbia, until it is known what decision the
Government of the United States have come to in regard to it.



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No. 22

I have the honor to forward the usual certificates of my having
granted, with the advice of the Executive Council, a year's
leave of Absence to Mr Benjamin W. Pearse, Assistant Surveyor
General of British Columbia.

2. I gladly take this opportunity of testifying to my entire
satisfaction with his Services and my confidence that should he
apply for promotion any indulgence he may receive from Your
Lordship will be well bestowed.



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Romaine to Rogers (Permanent Under-Secretary)

With reference to my letter of the 22nd Septr 1868, on the
subject of the proposal to confer the local Rank of Lieutenant
Colonel on Captain Delacombe, the Officer in command of the
Marines at VanCouver—in order to put him on the same footing as
the Officer in command of the American Military Force stationed
there, I am commanded by my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty
to send you, for the information of Lord Granville a copy of a
letter which they have received from Rear Admiral Hastings the
Commander in Chief on the Station, stating that he does not
consider the promotion of Captain Delacombe at all necessary;
and I am to acquaint you that, under the circumstances, their
Lordships are disposed to concur in that opinion.



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No. 23

In answer to Your Lordship's Circular despatch of the 4th
January enclosing one copy of the "Ship Captain's Medical Guide"
I have the honor to inform you that I have made application to
the Crown Agents to furnish the Colonial Government with 60
copies of that work, 10 of which are to be forwarded at once, by
Post, the remainder, to be sent via Panama.



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No. 24

I have the honor to forward the Blue Book of this Colony for the
Year 1867, together with a report from the Acting Colonial Secretary.

2. The United Colony is of such vast extent and presents so many
peculiar features that I feel I had better postpone to another
opportunity a general consideration of its resources and position.

3. From the Copy of the Addresses interchanged between the
Council and myself at the commencement of the present
Legislative Session, which I beg leave to lay before Your
Lordship, you will see that there is but little fear for the
future existing among the people.



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No. 25

I have the honor to forward to Your Lordship Copy of a letter
addressed to me by the Attorney General, relating to the
proceedings which took place in the Legislative Council on a
motion made by the Senior Member for the City of Victoria to
obtain the reduction of the Salaries of those Officers
guaranteed by "The Crown Officers Salaries Act 1863."

2. As, in the late Session, so in this, I directed the Officers
whose Salaries were under consideration to withdraw from the
Legislative Hall, until the matter should have been disposed of,
one way or the other. Now, as in 1868, the Resolutions in favor
of reduction were thrown out, in their absence.

*

3. I have more than once expressed the opinion that the
Governor's Salary is somewhat high for the Colony to pay during
its present financial depression. But it is certainly not too
high to cover the expenses of the Office I hold, nor to repay
the very arduous and responsible duties attached to it.

4. Even in the early days of the Colony, when its Revenue was
comparatively small and the social expenditure of the Public
Officers moderate, Sir James Douglas recommended that the Salary
attached to his office should not be less than five thousand
pounds a year.



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No. 26

With reference to my despatches noted in the margin

*

respecting the possibility of the Union of this Colony with the Dominion
of Canada, I have now the honor to forward copy of a resolution
passed by the Legislative Council on 17 February antagonistic to
the immediate consummation of such a measure.



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No. 17

I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your Despatch No.
136 of the 21st December enclosing a copy of the Address with which you
opened the Session of the Legislature on the 17th of that month and also
a copy of the reply you received from the Council.

I am glad to learn from your speech that the Finances of the Colony
are in process of recovery.

I am not aware what are the unofficial letters to which you refer
as conveying to you the opinion of Her Majesty's Government respecting
the union of Her Majesty's Possessions in British North America but I
have to point out to you that such communications ought not to be made
the basis of a formal announcement to the Legislature or Community of
British Columbia.

With regard to the proposal to give formally as well as virtually
Representative Institutions to the Colony I have to observe that looking
to the terms of the Acts 21 and 22 Victoria Cap: 99 Section 3 and 26 and
27 Victoria Cap 83 Section 2 and of the third and fifth Clauses of the
Order in Council of the 11th June 1863 by which the Legislative Council
was constituted it is more than doubtful whether the Legislative Council
of British Columbia are legally competent to alter the Constitution of
the Legislature prescribed by that Order in Council. I also doubt
whether the enactment of a new Constitution could properly be left to
them. On the legal question I may observe that the power to alter
Constitutions given under the 5th Section of the Colonial Laws Validity
Act (28 and 29 Victoria Cap 63) is confined to representative
Legislatures where one half of the Legislative Body are elected by
Inhabitants of the Colony.

If the difficulties which have hitherto prevented the formal
establishment of Representative Institutions are in process of wearing
out I will readily consider any detailed scheme which in your opinion
will provide for the adequate representation of the population and for
the efficient Government of the Country, especially if it shall appear
that the opinion of the Legislature coincides with your own.

The difficulties which have hitherto delayed the establishment of
Representative Institutions in British Columbia appear to have been the
migratory and scattered character of the population, the large
proportions of aliens or Visitors which exists in it and the presence of
the Indians whom it is difficult to govern and protect without a settled
and understood policy administered by a strong Executive power.



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No. 27

With reference to Your Lordship's predecessor's despatch No
44 of 7th July 1868, I have the honor to acquaint you that I
have authorized a Bill for one hundred and fifty pounds Sterling
(£150) to be drawn on the Paymaster General, on
the Imperial pension account, and I have to request that Your
Lordship will be pleased to cause the same to be accepted on
presentation.

2. I add the necessary vouchers.



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No. 28

I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of Your Lordship's
despatches as follows:

Originals No. 1, 5 January, to No. 4, 14 January 1869.

Circulars 9 and 11 January 1869.

Duplicates No. 1, 5 January, and No. 2, 11 January 1869.

Circulars 4 and 9 January 1869.



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No. 18

I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your Despatch No.
126 of the 30th November enclosing Copies of a correspondence which has
passed between you and Mr. Duncan in reference to some Murders which had
been committed in the vicinity of Metlakahtla.

Your Despatch seems to me to be far from satisfactory. In the
first place I do not understand the statement in your Minute of the 14th
November that the matter "was entirely taken out of your hands," as
Admiral Hastings seems to have offered to assist your Government in
discovering the murderers, and as the Magistrates in the vicinity of
that Station must be under your orders.

But even if it were taken out of your hands it was not your duty to
acquiesce in such a proceeding, but to resume your proper relation in
regard to the Administration of the Country, and to set right what had
gone wrong.

I need hardly express my dissent from the doctrine expressed (or
alleged to have been expressed) by Mr. Blenkinsop, that the Missionaries
should be desired to confine themselves to their legitimate business and
to leave Indians to settle amongst themselves what he calls their own
drunken quarrels. I wish that the Despatch contained more evidence that
you discountenanced it.

I much regret that it is my duty to observe that the inaction of
your Government in the present instance contrasts strongly with the
stirring and expensive operations which were set on foot and which
terminated in the destruction or dispersion of an Indian Tribe when an
outrage was committed, certainly not with less provocation, on European
Subjects of Her Majesty in 1864. I need hardly remind you that Indians
who have forsaken their savage mode of life and placed themselves under
what they suppose to be the protection of British Law are as much
entitled to rely on the Government for redress of injuries which they
may have received, as any British settler.



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No. 29

I have the honor to forward the Returns of Revenue &
expenditure for the Quarters ending respectively the 31st
March and the 30th June, 1868.



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No. 30

I have the honor to forward a letter addressed to Your Lordship
by Mr W.H. Franklyn the lately appointed Civil Commissioner
of the Seychelles, respecting the payment of his passage in
proceeding to those islands.



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No. 31

I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of Your Lordship's
despatch of the 16 January, forwarding the undermentioned
parliamentary papers.

"Report on Scientific Instruction" (one copy).



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Hammond to Under-Secretary of State

With reference to my letter of the 27th ultimo, I am directed
by The Earl of Clarendon to transmit to you, to be laid before
Earl Granville, a copy of a further despatch from Her Majesty's
Minister at Washington relative to the San Juan Convention.



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No. 32

I have had the honor to receive the Duke of Buckingham's
despatch No. 105 of 7th December 1868.

2. I see with pleasure that His Grace has been pleased to
approve of the Estimates for 1868.

3. As regards the Instructions conveyed to the Governor of the
Straits Settlements as to the preparation of the Estimates and
Financial Returns—copy of which is sent for my guidance so far
as they may be applicable to this Colony—I venture to observe
that they are not applicable to British Columbia. It would be
impossible for us with the present staff of accountant Officers
to furnish all the elaborate Statements required under the
Despatch in question. Even if they could be supplied without
additional assistance, the distance from, and the want of regular
communication with some of the District Collectorates, would
render them valueless as a guide to the financial operations of
this Government, from the fact that they could only be completed
months after the date they would represent.

4. In Colonies, such as the Mauritius, where it must be
difficult to Estimate the Revenue closely, as I perceive from
the Comparative Statement for the Year 1865 annexed to His
Grace's despatch No 105, where the Revenue exceeded that
Estimated by forty four thousand pounds
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No. 33

With reference to my despatch No. 136 of 21st December 1868,
announcing the opening of the Legislative Session, I have now
the honor to add that everything has progressed satisfactorily.
All the Bills in which I felt an interest have been passed and I
hope to be able to prorogue the Council on Saturday the 13th Instant.

2. I am pressing on business in every way, inasmuch as the
Spring is well advanced and it is desirable that the Magistrates
should return to their respective Districts.

3. I found it indispensable to keep on Mr Young as Acting
Colonial Secretary. We should never have got the Financial
Bills through with Mr Hankin as Presiding Member.



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No. 34

I have the honor to forward an Authenticated and two plain
Copies of an Ordinance of the present Session of the
Legislature, entitled;

No. 1. An Ordinance to establish Banks for Savings within the
Colony of British Columbia.

The Attorney General's Report is attached.

2. This measure was introduced to the Council by my direction,
and I think it likely to confer considerable benefit upon the
Colony.



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No. 35

I have the honor to forward an Authenticated and two plain
Copies of an Ordinance of the present Session of the Legislature
entitled;

No. 2. An Ordinance for promoting the Public Health in the
Colony of British Columbia.

I append the Report of the Attorney General upon this measure.

2. I consider this a useful measure and the main principles of
it were introduced to the Legislature by my direction. During
the late prevalence of the small pox in Victoria I had to assume
powers which the Law very certainly does not confer on me.



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No. 36

I have the honor to forward an Authenticated and two plain
Copies of an Ordinance of the present Session of the
Legislature, entitled;

No. 4. An Ordinance to enable "The Queen Charlotte Coal Mining
Company, Limited," to change their Registered Office from the
City of New Westminster to the City of Victoria.

Queen Charlotte's Island was a Dependency of the Mainland,
previous to the Union of the Colonies. Hence it was requisite
that the Head office of any Company formed to develope the
resources of the island should have its Head Quarters in New
Westminster. Union and the removal of the Seat of Government
has changed all that. I see no objection to the Ordinance.

2. I enclose the report of the Attorney General.



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No. 37

I have the honor to forward an Authenticated and two plain
Copies of an Ordinance of the present Session of the
Legislature, entitled;

No. 5. An Ordinance respecting the appointment of Commissioners
to take Affidavits and Bail, and for the making of Statutory
Declarations.

2. I see no objection to this Ordinance.

3. The Legal report of the Attorney General is enclosed.



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Sargeaunt to Sandford (Assistant Under-Secretary)

I transmit in original a letter addressed to the Crown Agents by
the Colonial Secretary of British Columbia, requesting the
payment, out of funds belonging to that Colony, of the sum of
£141.1.3 to the War Department for certain Arms and
Accoutrements, as well as a letter from the Assistant Accountant
General of the War Office on the same subject.

The amount standing to the credit of British Columbia in the
Books of this Office is £298, but the contributions to the
Sinking Funds on the Colonial Government Loans are in arrear to
the extent of £6175 whilst a further sum will be required on the
1st proxo of £4125 for interest and sinking fund.

I have the honor to apply for Earl Granville's instructions
whether this small claim of £141.1.3 of the War Department
should be settled out of funds in hand, and in the event of no
further remittances reaching this Office before the 1st April
proximo whether the Crown Agents are to pay the interest due on
that day from General Balances as an advance to the Government
of British Columbia.



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No. 38

I have the honor to forward an Authenticated and two plain
Copies of an Ordinance of the present Session of the
Legislature, entitled;

No. 6. An Ordinance respecting the Reconveyance of Vancouver
Island to the Crown.

2. This Ordinance was framed to meet the instructions conveyed
in the Duke of Buckingham's Despatch No. 16 of 2nd March
1868.

3. The Attorney General's report is enclosed.



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Hammond to Under-Secretary of State

I have laid before The Earl of Clarendon your letter of the
10th instant; and I am, in reply, to request that you will
state to Earl Granville that His Lordship concurs with Rear
Admiral Hastings that, under the circumstances, it will not be
necessary to confer the local and temporary rank of Lieutenant
Colonel on Captain Delacombe, now in command of Her Majesty's
troops at the Island of San Juan.



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No. 39

With reference to my despatch No. 14 of the 4th February, I
have the honor to transmit Copy of a paper containing the
opinions of certain Members of the Legislative Council and some
Merchants of Victoria with relation to a Treaty of Commercial
Reciprocity with the United States of America.

2. The paper I enclose was handed to me by the Senior Member
for Victoria on the occasion of my receiving a numerous
Deputation on the subject.



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No. 40

I have the honor to submit Copy of the Speech with which I
closed the Session of the Legislature on the 15th Instant.

2. Full particulars as to the measures passed shall be
forwarded by an Early opportunity.

3. It will now suffice if I mention that I found the
Legislative Council in an obliging, conciliatory humour,
while disposed to take more of initiation than usual.

A good sign, of course, for the working of our present
Constitution; I have carried all the Bills to which I attached
importance.

4. I am, I believe, on very good terms with the members of the
Legislative Council. At all events if disapproving of my rule,
they made no sign.



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No. 41

I have had the honor to receive Your Lordship's Despatch No. 1
of the 5th of January, forwarding a note from the Belgian
Minister, requesting that a document may be obtained from a
person named Verheyden, containing his consent to the Marriage
of his daughter Pauline.

2. I enclose copy of a letter from Mr Verheyden showing that
he will not give his consent without some further information on
the subject.



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No. 42

I have the honor to forward the usual certificates of my having
granted, with the advice of the Executive Council, a year's
leave of absence to Mr John White, Clerk to Magistrate of the
Columbia District.



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No. 43

I have the honor to forward a Resolution passed by the
Legislative Council on the 14th of February, in favour of my
declaring that a voyage to any Foreign Port shall be considered
of not less than forty days duration, and that "vessels of fifty
tons burthen and upwards bound foreign shall be allowed their
stores duty free."

2. I enclose a Report on the subject from the Collector of
Customs, and would beg for instructions from Your Lordship.

3. It seems somewhat preposterous to declare a voyage to Port
Angelos—an hour and a half in a steamer—or to Port Townsend,
three hours and a half under steam, to be of not less than forty
days duration, but I am willing to further the trade of Victoria
in any way I legitimately can.



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No. 44

I have the honor to forward an Authenticated and two plain
Copies of a Bill passed during the recent Session of the
Legislature of this Colony, entitled;

An Ordinance to Incorporate the Members of the Congregation of
St Andrew's Presbyterian Church, in the City of Victoria,
British Columbia.

2. The objections raised by the Attorney General appear to me
so formidable that I refer the matter for Your Lordship's instructions.



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No. 45

I have the honor to forward an Authenticated and two plain
Copies of an Ordinance of the late Session of the Legislature of
this Colony, entitled;

No. 3. An Ordinance to appropriate the sum of four hundred and
nineteen thousand three hundred and thirty five dollars and
fifty cents out of the General Revenue of the Colony for the
Contingent Service of the Year 1869.

2. I add the Report of the Attorney General and one from the Acting
Colonial Secretary.



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No. 46

I have the honor to forward the usual Returns for the Quarter
ended 30th September 1868, relating to the Revenue and
Expenditure of the Colony.



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No. 47

With reference to my despatches noted in the margin,

*

I have the honor to forward Copy of the last Report received from the
Chief Constable of the Kootenay District.

2. The prospects for the next summer, which is coming on
rapidly, seem highly favorable.

3. I have authorized Mr Normansell, who is an excellent
Public Officer to make such temporary increase, from time to
time, in the police force as he may deem absolutely necessary.
We have had several attempts made to establish Lynch Law, which
is much more popular among the Miners than English Law, on the
Kootenay.

4. It is probable that I shall require Mr O'Reilly, the
Police Magistrate at Yale to visit the new diggings this year
should they acquire the importance anticipated.



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No. 48

I have the honor to forward an Authenticated and two plain
Copies of an Ordinance of the late Session of the Legislature of
this Colony, entitled;

No. 7. An Ordinance further to extend the time granted to the
Harewood Colliery Company, Limited, by "The Harewood Railways
Company's Act, 1864" for making and completing a Tramway from
the Company's Mines to Departure Bay, Nanaimo.

2. I likewise enclose the Legal Report of the Attorney General.

3. I quite agree with that Officer that no further extension of
the rights of the Company should be granted beyond the time
fixed by this Ordinance; but as the principal proprietor in the
Company, Lord Harewood's brother, Captain Lascelles R.N. has
returned to the Colony without naval employment, I trust that
his object is to take up the work contemplated with vigour.



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No. 49

I have the honor to forward an Authenticated and two plain
Copies of an Ordinance of the late Session of the Legislature of
this Colony, entitled;

No. 11. An Ordinance respecting Pre-emption Claims.

2. The Report of the Attorney General fully discloses the
object of this Measure which I beg to recommend for allowance.



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No. 50

I have the honor to forward an Authenticated and two plain
Copies of an Ordinance of the recent Session of the Legislature,
entitled;

No. 12. An Ordinance respecting Stipendiary Magistrates.

2. This measure was introduced by myself and together with the
Attorney General, whose opinion I enclose, I recommend it for
allowance.



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No. 51

I have the honor to forward an Authenticated and two plain
Copies of an Ordinance of the late Session of the Legislature of
this Colony, entitled;

No. 13. An Ordinance to amend the Law of Partnership.

2. The Attorney General's report, which I enclose is
sufficiently explanatory of the objects of this measure.



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No. 52

I have the honor to forward an Authenticated and two plain
Copies of an Ordinance of the recent Session of the Legislature
entitled;

No. 15. An ordinance to establish a Volunteer Force.

2. I agree in opinion with the Attorney General whose report I
enclose, that this Ordinance may be allowed.



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No. 53

I have the honor to forward an Authenticated and two plain
Copies of an Ordinance of the late Session of the Legislature
entitled;

No. 16. An Ordinance to provide for the maintenance,
improvement, and construction of Roads in British Columbia.

2. As the Bill was introduced by my direction I need scarcely
say that the Ordinance meets with my approval.

3. The Report of the Attorney General is enclosed.



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No. 54

I have the honor to forward an Authenticated and two plain
Copies of an ordinance of the late Session of the Legislature,
entitled;

No. 17. An Ordinance respecting the practise of Surgery, and
for the encouragement of the Study of Anatomy.

2. The subject is by no means a pleasing one and the Government
Members of Council were generally opposed to it.

3. It will rest with Your Lordship, after reading the Attorney
General's report, to determine whether the measure shall be
allowed or not. On the whole I think it advisable that it
should not be disallowed.



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No. 19

I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your Despatch No. 4
of the 4th January enclosing a letter from Rear Admiral Hastings,
expressing his belief that it is unnecessary to confer local brevet rank
on the Officer in Command of the Force stationed at San Juan.

The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and the Lords
Commissioners of the Admiralty to whom the subject was referred concur
in the opinion expressed by Rear Admiral Hastings.



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No. 55

I have the honor to forward an Authenticated and two plain
Copies of an Ordinance of the late Session of the Legislature of
this Colony, entitled;

No. 14. An Ordinance granting a Supplemental Supply of
$134,465 98/100, out of the General Revenue of the Colony of
British Columbia and its Dependencies for the Contingent Service
of the Years 1866-7, respectively.

2. This Ordinance requires little comment from me. I enclose
the report of the Attorney General and of the Acting Colonial
Secretary.



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Confidential

I transmit to you a copy of a letter which I have received from Mr.
A. Wells in reference to the case of "Krog v Franklin" which was tried
at the Bristol Assizes in 1858.

In case Captain Franklin should not have left British Columbia I
have to request you to place a copy of that communication in his hands
and to desire him to furnish such a Report as will enable me to judge
what steps I should take in the matter.



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No. 56

I have the honor to forward an Authenticated and two plain
Copies of a Bill of the late Session of the Legislature,
entitled;

An Ordinance to entitle Exporters of Goods to certain Drawbacks
and for other purposes.

2. Your Lordship will observe that I have not yet assented to
it but await instructions.

3. I enclose the Report of the Attorney General and of the
Collector of Customs on the subject. Both seem opposed to the
measure. On the other side, I forward a letter from Dr
Helmcken, an influential Member of Council, strongly urging its
adoption. I attach likewise copies of the proceedings on the
subject in the Legislative Council.

4. As regards the Certificate required at the Custom House that
Goods have been actually landed at a Foreign Port, I know that
its abolition would be a most popular measure, but it is not one
that I am prepared to take on my own authority.



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No. 57

I duly received the Duke of Buckingham's Despatch No. 62 of the
15th August 1868, and caused inquiries to be made as to the
advisability of forwarding the Mails from the Mother Country to
this Colony viâ Portland in Oregon, instead of, as at present,
by way of San Fancisco.

2. From the result of these inquiries it seems to me desirable
that no change should be made in the existing system. The
Railroad across the continent to San Francisco is fast
approaching completion and, as a general rule, Mails sent from
England to British Columbia viâ San Francisco, will reach their
destination in less time than if sent viâ Portland in Oregon.

3. It sometimes happens, however, from a want of connection in
the Mail Steamers, that it may be advisable to forward the Mails
from British Columbia to England by way of Portland and Salt
Lake City. Under such circumstances, the arrangement intimated
in the letter of 28th July 1868, from the Post Office
Department at Washington, will be adopted, and care will be
taken to label the Mail Bags as pointed out.



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No. 58

I have the honor to lay before your Lordship a humble petition
adopted unanimously by the Legislative Council praying Her
Majesty to remove the present unsatisfactory condition in which
the Courts of Justice of this Colony are now left.

2. Unquestionably the Ordinance passed during the recent
Session was much needed, but it does not appear to the
Legislative Council to meet all the popular requirements.



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Hammond to Under-Secretary of State

I am directed by the Earl of Clarendon to transmit to you, to be
laid before Earl Granville, a copy of a despatch from Her
Majesty's Minister at Washington, reporting a Resolution that
has been recently adopted by the Senate of the United States, in
regard to the island of San Juan.



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Otway to Under-Secretary of State

I have laid before The Earl of Clarendon your letter of the
17th instant, marked Confidential, and I am, in reply, to
request that you will state to Earl Granville that there is
nothing in the correspondence of this Office to show the precise
relative positions of the Naval Commander in Chief and of the
Governor of British Columbia in regard to the occupancy of the
Island of San Juan.

I am, however, to observe that, by the agreement come to by
General Scott and Governor Douglas in 1859, the occupation
of the Island of San Juan was to be a joint military occupation,
and the arrangements with the United States' Military Commander,
for placing the Island in the joint occupation of the
detachments of British Marines and United States infantry, were
undertaken by the then Admiral on the Station, Admiral Baynes,
who issued the orders to the Officer of Marines, under which the
Officer commanding the British force has since acted, and which
were communicated by him to the United States' Commander on the
20th of March 1860. Governor Douglas had originally proposed
that it should be a civil occupation, but General Scott objected
to this on the ground that, in that case, the civil magistrate
would be under the control of the local Government of Washington
Territory, which, for obvious reasons, would be inexpedient,
while a military force would be under the direct command of the
central Government.

It will be seen from the letter from the Colonial Office of the
19th of March 1861, that the British Civil Magistrate was
withdrawn at the suggestion of Governor Douglas in that year.

Moreover, it appears from the papers laid before the Senate, of
which a copy was forwarded to you in my letter of the 6th
of July 1868, that the civil
Authorities of Washington Territory and the district Revenue
Officers claim to exercise jurisdiction over the Island,
notwithstanding the agreement of 1859, which, although approved
by the executive, they do not consider legally binding on them
without the authority of an Act of Congress. Under instructions
from the State Department, the United States' military Officers
have forcibly resisted these pretensions, and, in 1867, Brevet
Major Graves was arrested and put under heavy bonds for this
resistance to the civil Jurisdiction of the Territory.

Under these circumstances, Lord Clarendon considers that it
would not be advisable to make any change in the manner in which
the British occupancy has hitherto been carried on. The Officer
of Marines must necessarily be dependent for many purposes on
the Admiral, under whose orders he should remain, while the
Governor and the Admiral should act in concert with regard to
any political questions that may arise.

If the authority of the Governor of British Columbia over the
Island is asserted by the British Government, the local
Government of Washington Territory may be further encouraged to
assert their Civil Jurisdiction over it, and the agreement of
1859 be disturbed.

I am to suggest that copies of this correspondence should be
furnished for the information of the Board of Admiralty.



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No. 59

I have the honor to forward an Authenticated and two plain
Copies of an Ordinance of the late Session of the Legislature of
this Colony, entitled;

No. 23. An Ordinance respecting the property of Religious
Institutions in the Colony of British Columbia.

2. I agree with the Attorney General, whose Report I enclose,
that this Ordinance is free from objection.



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Law to Under-Secretary of State

I am directed by the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's
Treasury to state, for the information of Lord Granville, with
reference to your Letters of the 11th November 1867, 8 June 1868 &
25 March 1869, that My Lords approve of the Ordinance of the
Legislature of British Columbia, No 21 of 1867, "to render
uniform the Laws establishing a Decimal System of Accounts, and
regulating the Currency of the Colony."



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No. 60

I have the honor to forward an Authenticated and two plain
Copies of an Ordinance of the late Session of the Legislature of
this Colony, entitled;

No. 8. An Ordinance to regulate the Supreme Courts of Justice
of British Columbia.

2. The Report of the Attorney General seems sufficiently
explanatory. I trust that this Ordinance, to which I have
assented, will meet with your Lordship's approval.



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Law to Under-Secretary of State

I am directed by the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's
Treasury to state, for the information of Lord Granville, with
reference to your Letter of 25th ulto further respecting the
charge on account of Royal Engineers in British Columbia, that
My Lords have no further observations to make on this subject
which They consider disposed of by Their Letter of 5th December 1867.



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No. 61

I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of Your Lordship's
despatches, this day, of the numbers and dates noted in the
margin.

*



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No. 62

I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of Your Lordship's
Circular despatch of the 29th of January, forwarding the
undermentioned Parliamentary papers:
"Abstract of Wrecks and Casualties, 1867" (one copy).



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Trevor to Under-Secretary of State

With further reference to a letter from the Colonial Office,
dated 20 June 1868, forwarding a requisition for oil & stores
for Vancouvers Island Lighthouse, I am directed by the Board of
Trade to forward to you the accompanying copy of a statement of
Disbursements on account of the same, made by the Board of
Trade, & to request that you will move Earl Granville to obtain
repayment of the amount.



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Law to Under-Secretary of State

I am directed by the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's
Treasury to state, for the information of Lord Granville, with
reference to your Letter of the 25th ulto, that the
correspondence inclosed in your Letter of the 22 June last
relating to the expenditure on certain Works at S. Juan, was
communicated to the War Departt.

My Lords apprehend that the works referred to formed the subject
of a claim preferred by the Auditor General of the Colony in an
Account rendered by him for the Quarter ended 31st December 1867
to the amount of £1037.13.7, which has been repaid to the Colony.



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Romaine to Under-Secretary of State

I am commanded by My Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to
acquaint you that
on the occasion of HMS "Sparrowhawk" being sent last year to
visit the Northern Part of Vancouver Island to make enquiries
respecting certain murders which had been committed by Indians,
it became necessary to send an Interpreter who was messed at the
Ward Room Mess, and at the expiration of his Services which
extended over seventeen days, he was paid the sum of ten pounds,
eight shillings and three pence (£10.8.3), being
at the rate at which he is paid by the Colonial Government, and
the Ward Room Mess received the sum of ten pounds four shillings
(£10.4.0) for his entertainment.

As this gentleman was required on service wholly Colonial, My
Lords request that Lord Granville will give the necessary
directions for the account to be repaid in order that the Naval
Vote may be relieved of this charge.



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No. 20

I have the honor to convey to you Her Majesty's gracious
confirmation and allowance of the Ordinance No. 21 of 1867 which
accompanied your despatch No. 104 of the 7th September 1867, and which
is entitled "An Ordinance to render uniform the Laws establishing a
decimal system of accounts, and regulating the Currency of the Colony."



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No. 21

With reference to your despatch No. 22, of the 19th March 1868 I
have the honor to transmit to you a copy of a letter from the Board of
Trade enclosing a statement of disbursements made by that Department on
account of the Light House Stores for the use of your Government.

I have to instruct you to remit the amount (£315.16.7) to the Crown
Agents for payment to the Board of Trade.



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No. 63

Not having received any answer to my despatches mentioned in the
margin,

*

I have determined to incur no longer the responsibility
of keeping Lieutenant Hankin, R.N. out of the office of Colonial
Secretary to which he was appointed by Royal Warrant.

I have issued a Commission to him today and have sworn him into
office.



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No. 64

I have had the honor to receive Your Lordship's despatch No. 7
of the 1st of February 1869, directing me to cause amendments
to be made in the Ordinance No. 31 of 1867, entitled;

An Ordinance respecting Practitioners in Medicine and Surgery.

2. The Legislature is not now in Session, but I have forwarded
instructions to the Attorney General to prepare a Bill to carry
out Your Lordship's directions.



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No. 65

I have had the honor to receive Your Lordship's despatch No 4
of 14 January enquiring whether I have received the Duke of
Buckingham's Circular despatch of the 6th of August 1868
respecting the proposed registration of Births, Marriages, and
Deaths. In reply I have to state that my despatch of the 27th
of October 1868 acknowledged the receipt of His Grace's circular
despatch in question.

*

2. My despatch No 100 of 11 August, will have informed Your
Lordship that the subject was considered in the Executive
Council, and I was advised that the Ceylon regulations could not
be made to apply to this Colony.

3. I laid before the Legislative Council, by message, a copy of
the abstract of the Ceylon Registration Ordinances, which formed
part of the Duke of Buckingham's Circular Despatch of 6th of
August 1868, the Council however did not take action in the matter.



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No. 66

With reference to my despatches noted in the margin,

*

I have the honor to forward copy of a letter addressed to me by Mr
W.A.G. Young.

2. I believe Mr Young intends leaving for England, by an early
opportunity, and I certainly hope that Your Lordship, bearing in
mind the particular circumstances of the case, as set forth in
my despatch 'Confidential' of 29 November 1868, will be enabled
to offer Mr Young employment, if not promotion, in another of
Her Majesty's Colonies.

3. I shall write further on this subject.



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Confidential

I have to acknowledge the receipt of your Confidential Despatch of
the 16th January requesting to be informed what are the relative
positions of the Naval Commander in Chief and of the Governor of British
Columbia in regard to the Affairs of San Juan during our Military
occupation of the North End of the Island.

I transmit to you for your information and guidance a Copy of a
letter from the Foreign Office in reply to a reference made to that
Department on the subject and have to observe that it does not seem
advisable to Her Majesty's Government for the reasons therein mentioned
that the Government of British Columbia should exercise any jurisdiction
in San Juan.



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Sargeaunt to Sandford (Assistant Under-Secretary)

Referring to my letter of the 12th ultimo I have the honor to
report for Earl Granville's information that the Crown Agents
have received from the Government of British Columbia bills
amounting to £3500 which the Bank of England have been requested
to discount for the purpose of providing the necessary funds to
pay interest on British Columbia Debentures due on the 1st instant.



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No. 67

I have received with considerable regret Your Lordship's
despatch No. 9 of the 3rd of February informing me that Rear
Admiral The Honorable G.F. Hastings had been directed to make
Valparaiso his future Head Quarters as Naval Commander in Chief
in the Pacific.

2. In parting, for the present, with Admiral Hastings I feel it
my duty to convey to Her Majesty's Government an expression of
the gratitude I entertain for the Services he has rendered
to the Colony and for the consideration he has been good enough
to give to every wish of mine.



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No. 68

I have the honor to forward an authenticated and two plain
copies of an Ordinance of the recent Session of the Legislature,
of this Colony, entitled;

No. 19. An Ordinance entitled "The Game Ordinance 1869."

I see no objection at all to this measure.

2. The Attorney General's report is enclosed.



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No. 69

I have the honor to forward an authenticated and two plain
copies of an Ordinance of the recent Session of the Legislature
of this Colony, entitled;

No. 20. An Ordinance to enable the Municipal Council of the
City of Victoria to establish a permanent fund for the support
of the Fire Establishments of the said city.

2. This measure appears to me as free from objection as it does
to the Attorney General, whose report I enclose.



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No. 22

I transmit to you for your information, and with reference to your
Despatch No. 36 of the 2nd May a copy of a letter from the Board of
Treasury relating to the expenditure on certain works of construction
and repair which had become necessary at the British Station on the
Island of San Juan.



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No. 23

With reference to my despatch No. 4 of the 30th December, I transmit
to you a copy of a further letter from the Crown Agents respecting the
liabilities of your Government on account of the British Columbia and
Vancouvers Island Loans both as regards interest and Sinking fund. You
will observe that on the 12th March the contributions to the Sinking
fund were in arrear to the extent of £6175 whilst a further sum of £4125
was required for interest and Sinking fund on the 1st April.

The Crown Agents have now reported to me the arrival of Bills
amounting to £3500, which the Bank of England have been requested to
discount, for the purpose of providing funds to pay interest on British
Columbia Debentures due on the 1st of April. I am glad to find that
provision is being made for meeting the claims of the Debenture-holders,
but I must point out to you that your Bills were not received in time
for the payment of the interest on the day on which it was due.

I must also impress upon you, most urgently, the necessity for
taking immediate steps to enable your government to keep faith with the
creditors of the Colony in respect to the investments of the Sinking
fund, for paying which either at once or by instalments you have not
thought it necessary to make any proposal.

The amount which will be required before October to cover arrears,
sinking fund and interest now amount to about £15,550.

It is my intention under these circumstances to apply the
remittances hereafter received from you as follows:

1. To the payment of the interest falling due in July viz. £3000
on account of British Columbia and £1200 on account of Vancouvers Island
Loans.

2. To the extent of £8000 to the Sinking fund.

Until these charges have been met I cannot consent to the
appropriation of any moneys towards the payment of the dividends which
will become due in October 1869, and I shall expect remittances after
that time sufficient at least to pay the interest, and, as rapidly as
the revenues of the Colony will admit of, the full amount of the Sinking
fund which fund should certainly be placed in its proper position before
the dividends of April 1870 are paid.

As the consequences of this decision may be that it will become
impossible to pay the interest due on the 1st October, I do not doubt
that the Government of British Columbia will provide against a
contingency so de[s]tructive to their credit.



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No. 70

I have the honor to forward an authenticated and two plain
copies of an Ordinance of the recent Session of the Legislature
of this Colony entitled;

No. 22. An Ordinance to facilitate the working of the Mineral Lands.

Your Lordship will observe that it contains a suspending clause.

2. The report of the Attorney General is sufficiently full on
the subject.

3. As the main principles of the measure were introduced by
myself, I need hardly say that I take a favorable view of the
Ordinance.

4. Should Your Lordship approve of the measure, perhaps you
would be good enough to telegraph to me, Her Majesty's allowance
of the Ordinance. It is one of great importance to the Colony.



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No. 71

I have the honor to forward an Authenticated and two plain
Copies of an Ordinance of the late Session of the Legislature of
this Colony entitled;

No. 25. An Ordinance to amend "The County Courts Ordinance 1867."

2. I think this a useful measure. The decision conveyed in the
Secretary of State's despatch No. 29 of 3rd June 1869,

*

and the mode in which it has been acted on by Chief Justice
Needham left it open to Mr Cameron, late Chief Justice, to
claim the Fees of the County Courts ever since 1860.
This ordinance settles that question.

3. It was proposed in the Legislative Council that the Chief
Justices should be compelled to act as County Court Judges. I
sent the Bill back for Amendment as my great respect for the
opinion of those who maintain that the Judges ought to be
perfectly independent, precluded my conferring on them by Law
duties not entailed on them by their Instruments of Appointment.
My recommendation was adopted.

4. The Report of the Attorney General is enclosed.



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Law to Under-Secretary of State

I am directed by the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's
Treasury to state, for the information of Lord Granville that
My Lords approve of the grant of £600, or 18 months pay, to Mr
Cooper late Harbour Master at Victoria, as compensation for
loss of Office on abolition, as reported in the despatch from
the Governor of British Columbia submitted in your Letter of the
9th Inst.



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No. 72

I have the honor to forward an authenticated and two plain
copies of a bill passed by the Legislative Council, during the
late Session, but not yet assented to by me. It is entitled;

An Ordinance to extend certain provisions of the 18 and 19
Vict: cap 90 to the Colony of British Columbia.

2. I enclose the report of the Attorney General.

3. I cannot see the necessity for the measure and in another
Colony with which I was connected a similar law was found far
from satisfactory.



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No. 73

I have had the honor to receive Your Lordship's despatch No. 5
of the 22nd of January enclosing a document for Christian
Frederick Weishaar, and directing me to enclose a receipt of
it's delivery.

2. That receipt I have now the honor to forward, attested by myself.



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No. 74

I have the honor to forward an Authenticated and two plain
Copies of an Ordinance of the recent Session of the Legislature,
entitled;

No. 10. An Ordinance for the better protection of Cattle, and
the better prevention of Cattle Stealing.

2. I think the measure a good one. It will apply principally
to the Islands lying between Vancouver Island and the Mainland
which are visited occasionally by very lawless people, both
of European and Indian extraction.

3. I enclose the Report of the Attorney General.

4. Your Lordship will observe that the ordinance contains a
suspending clause.



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No. 75

I have the honor to forward an Authenticated and two plain
Copies of an Ordinance of the recent Session of the Legislature
of this Colony entitled;

No. 21. An Ordinance to establish Public Schools throughout the
Colony of British Columbia.

2. I add the report of the Attorney General.

3. It seems to me that the measure is not in any way dangerous.
On the whole I recommend it for Your Lordship's favorable
consideration.



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No. 24

I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch No. 11
of the 30th January and to approve of the grant of £600 to Mr. Cooper,
late Harbour Master at Victoria as compensation for loss of office on
abolition.



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Confidential

I have received your Confidential Despatches respecting the
Appointment of Mr. Philip Hankin as Colonial Secretary of British
Columbia.

The absence of any sufficient ground for the strong opinions which
you have expressed as to Mr. Hankin's unfitness for that office, joined
to the evident animus which I regret to perceive in your Despatches lead
me to doubt whether the disturbances which you anticipate from Mr.
Hankins appointment are really much to be apprehended.

It appears to me however very unfortunate that you did not long ago
make up your mind as to the fitness of Mr. Young for Colonial Secretary,
which there seems to me even on your own statement to be no sufficient
reason for questioning. If this appointment had been made all public
inconvenience and private hardship would have been avoided.

As you did not do this, and as Mr. Hankin has consequently been
appointed it is your plain duty to do all in your power to enable him to
perform the functions of his office effectively.

I learn from private sources that Mr. Hankin had been six weeks in
the Colony before the Mails just received were despatched from it, but
of this I have received no information from you, and I am left to
conjecture whether the disastrous consequences foretold by you have
arisen or are likely to arise.

Under these circumstances it is impossible for me to give you any
encouragement to suppose that you will have been warranted in any other
course than that of giving effect to the arrangements decided upon by my
Predecessor.

I desire to know whether that course has been taken and if not what
has been done, and with what result.



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No. 25

I have to acknowledge the receipt of your Despatch enclosing a
letter from Major Foster in which he applies for public employment. I
have to request you to inform Major Foster that I will put his name on
the list of Candidates, and consider his claims as vacancies may occur.

That list however is a long one and many persons have prior claims
to Major Foster which must render it difficult to meet his wishes.



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Baxter to Under-Secretary of State

Having laid before my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty your
letter of the 19th December, 1868, transmitting copy of a
despatch from the Governor of British Columbia, with a
memorandum from the Acting Colonial Secretary suggesting that
cash might be obtained by the Naval Accountant at Vancouvers
Island from the Colonial authorities at British Columbia; I am
commanded by their Lordships to express their regret that they
are not able to comply with this suggestion, as by the present
arrangements not only is the Naval Service promptly supplied
with the amounts required, but there is an annual gain to this
Department by Exchange, which my Lords see no good reason for
sacrificing.



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No. 76

I have the honor to forward an Authenticated and two plain
Copies of an Ordinance of the recent Session of the Legislature
entitled;
No. 24. An Ordinance respecting Indian Reserves.

2. I directed the introduction of this measure and need
scarcely say, therefore, that I approve of it. I think that
the powers it confers may very safely be vested in the
Stipendiary Magistrates.

3. The Legal Report of the Attorney General is enclosed.



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No. 26

I transmit to you a copy of a letter from the Board of Admiralty
requesting that the Naval Vote may be relieved of the charge imposed
upon it by the employment on board the "Sparrowhawk" of an interpreter
when that Vessel was sent to visit the Northern Part of Vancouvers
Island to make enquiries respecting murders which had been committed by
the Indians.

I have to instruct you to remit the amount to the Crown Agents for
payment to the Admiralty.



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No. 77

I have the honor to forward an Authenticated and two plain
Copies of an Ordinance of the recent Session of the Legislature,
entitled;

No. 26. An Ordinance to enlarge and amend the "Victoria
Municipal Ordinance 1867."

I see no objection to this measure.

2. The Attorney General's report is enclosed.



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No. 27

I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your Despatch No.
110 of the 1st September 1868, enclosing a Memorandum from the then
Acting Colonial Secretary suggesting a mode in which remittances to the
Agents General on account of the Interest and Sinking Funds of the
British Columbia and Vancouver Island Loans might in his opinion be
most conveniently made.

The Lords of the Admiralty to whom your Despatch was referred have
expressed their regret that they are not able to comply with that
suggestion, as by the present arrangements not only is the Naval Service
promptly supplied with the amounts required, but there is an annual gain
to the Board of Admiralty by exchange, which their Lordships see no good
reason for sacrificing.



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Pearse to Granville

I have the honor to transmit the Enclosed Dispatch from the
Governor of British Columbia, recommending me to the favourable
consideration of your Lordship.

I have been 18 years in the Public Service, 13 years in the
Capacity of Assistant Surveyor General, and five years in that
of Surveyor General (acting). During the last mentioned period
I was a member of the Executive
and Legislative Councils. Upon the Union of the Colonies of
British Columbia and Vancouver Island, I, in Common with the
other Heads of Department of the Government of Vancouver Island,
received a Circular letter from the Governor informing me that
the Office I then held was abolished by Act of Parliament. At
the request of the Governor I continued to conduct the business
of the Office until I obtained my Leave of absence on the 1st
March last, with a view to urge upon the favourable
consideration of Her Majesty's Government my claim to be
appointed to an Office Similar in kind to that which I held
before the Union of the Colonies.

I have also to request that I may be honored with an interview
in order that I may more fully explain to your Lordship my
position in the matter.



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Pearse to Granville

I have the honor to request that I may be furnished with the
necessary Certificates and Instructions to the Crown Agents for
the Colonies, to enable me to draw my Half Salary whilst in
England, on Leave of absence from British Columbia.



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No. 78

I have the honor to forward an authenticated and two plain
copies of an Ordinance of the recent Session of the Legislature
of this Colony, entitled;

No. 9. An Ordinance to provide for the fencing of land in
British Columbia.

2. The Attorney General's report is enclosed.

3. Though I think the Bill originally introduced to be better
than the one now forwarded, I did not think the objections
entertained were sufficiently grave to require me to disallow the bill.

*



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No. 79

I have the honor to forward an authenticated and two plain
copies of an Ordinance passed in the recent Session of the
Legislature of this Colony, entitled:

No. 18. An Ordinance to amend the procedure in Civil cases.

2. The report of the Attorney General is enclosed.



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No. 80

I have the honor to forward an authenticated and two plain
copies of a Bill passed by the Legislative Council during the
late Session, Entitled:

An Ordinance respecting the Companies Ordinance 1866.

2. I have reserved my assent to this Bill pending Your
Lordship's instructions.

3. The Attorney General's report upon it is enclosed.



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Cowan to Duke of Argyle

I took the liberty of inclosing a few weeks ago to your Grace a
letter from (an old acquaintance of mine in this County,) Mr
Philip Cadell, who has been for many years engaged in mining
operations in California and British Columbia.

I have just now received another, and very long letter from Mr
Cadell dated 2d March, appended to which is a copy of a
Memorial to Governor Seymour, in favor of the introduction of
Cadell's Gold Washing Machinery, which appears to be [drafted & ?]
signed by the mercantile Community at Victoria.

Your Grace will perceive that it is the Writer's wish that
this communication should be transmitted
through your office to the Colonial Secretary (see at foot of 1st
Page) and I cannot well decline compliance with this request.

*

I have had very frequent and exceedingly long letters from
this Mr Cadell, indeed by almost every mail, and I do not think
I shall be likely to trouble your Grace again upon the subject.

I hope that your Grace will forgive me for the liberty which I
unwillingly take in a matter which is certainly not in your Department.



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No. 28

I am directed by the Secretary of State to acknowledge the receipt
of your Despatch No. 22 of the 1st of March and to convey to you the
confirmation of the leave of absence for twelve months which you have
granted to Mr. Benjamin W. Pearse, Assistant Surveyor General of
British Columbia.



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Sargeaunt to Sandford (Assistant Under-Secretary)

Previous to the receipt of your letter of the 16th instant
the Crown Agents had received from the Government of British
Columbia a further remittance of £2000, and had discounted the
Bill at the Bank of England for the purpose of paying over to
Trust Fund account the amount due to Sinking Funds on the 15th
July and 1st October last, together £2125.

The Crown Agents adopted this course as there was about three
months before any further funds would be required for the
payment of interest; after paying over the above amount there
will be a balance of about £600 to the credit of the local
Government in the books of this Office.

The next remittances the Crown Agents will reserve for the
payment of interest due in July next, in the manner proposed in
your letter of the 16th instant.

I take this opportunity of transmitting copy of a letter from
the Colonial Secretary of British Columbia respecting a claim of
£979.7.8 against Her Majesty's Government for the conveyance of
Mails between that Colony and San Francisco.



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No. 81

I have the honor to forward for Your Lordship's information the
last report received from the Chief Constable of Kootenay
respecting his district.

2. Mr Normansell is one of the most satisfactory public
officers in the Colony, and it is my intention of sending him
the additional assistance he solicits in his very difficult
duties. The Kootenay Gold mines lie close to the American
frontier and several instances of insubordination have shewn
themselves among the miners.

3. Mr Ball the Police Magistrate of New Westminster will
visit the mines during the summer.



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Confidential

I have to acknowledge the receipt of your Despatch No. 33 of the
9th March reporting the progress of the Legislative Session, and stating
that you found it indispensable to keep on Mr. Young as Acting Colonial
Secretary, and Presiding Member of Council.

With reference to that Statement I must refer you to my
Confidential Despatch of the 19th April.



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No. 29

I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch No. 17
of the 23rd February reporting that you had directed an immediate
remittance of two thousand pounds to be made to the Crown Agents.

I have nothing to add to the despatch which I addressed to you on
the 13th ultimo, No. 23.



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No. 82

I have had the honor to receive Your Lordship's Circular
despatch of the 9th January transmitting copy of a letter from
the Treasury on the subject of cases of Bankruptcy and
Insolvency on the part of persons holding Offices in the Public
Service.

2. As soon as the work entailed on the Printing department by
the late Session of the Legislature would permit, I caused Your
Lordship's despatch and its enclosures to be published in the
Government Gazette, a copy of which I enclose.



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White to Rogers (Permanent Under-Secretary)

I have the honor to report my arrival for one years leave of
absence from British Columbia & request that Lord Granville will
instruct the Crown Agents to pay me my half salary during that time.



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No. 83

I have had the honour to receive Your Lordship's despatches as
follows:

Originals No. 13, 15 February, to No. 19, 23 March 1869.

Confidential 24 March 1869.

Circulars 19 and 27 February; 10 March 1869.

Parliamentary 19 and 22 March 1869.

Duplicates No. 11, 8 February, and No. 18, 7 March 1869.

Circulars 5, 6 and 27 February 1869.



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No. 84

I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of Your Lordship's
despatch of the 19th February, forwarding the undermentioned
parliamentary papers.

*



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No. 85

I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of Your Lordship's
despatch of 19th March, forwarding the undermentioned
Parliamentary papers.

*



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No. 86

I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of Your Lordship's
despatch, forwarding the undermentioned Parliamentary papers.

*



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No. 30

I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your Despatch No. 26
of the 4th March enclosing copy of a resolution passed by the
Legislative Council of British Columbia adverse to the immediate union
of the Colony with the Dominion of Canada.

A copy of that resolution has been forwarded to Sir John Young.



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No. 31

I have been glad to learn from the Crown Agents that they have
received from your Government a further remittance of £2000, and that
they have been enabled to pay over to the Trust Fund Account the amount
due to Sinking Funds on the 15th July and 1st October last, together
£2125.

I enclose an extract of the Crown Agents letter for your
information and with reference to your Despatch No. 17 of the 23rd of
February.



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Hammond to Under-Secretary of State

I am directed by the Earl of Clarendon to submit to you for the
information of Earl Granville, copies of a Correspondence as
marked in the margin,

*

upon the subject of the alleged
encroachment of the Agents of the Hudson's Bay Company, on the
territory and trade of Alaska.



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Romaine to Rogers (Permanent Under-Secretary)

I am commanded by my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to
transmit for the information of the Earl Granville

extracts from a Letter of Rr Admiral Hastings Commander in Chief
in the Pacific reporting the result of his visit to various
ports between Esquimalt and Nanaimo, and to other localities in
British Columbia.



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Otway to Under-Secretary of State

With reference to your letter of the 4th Instant, I am directed
by the Earl of Clarendon to request that you will observe to
Earl Granville that His Lordship observes that in communicating
to this office Governor Seymour's Despatch of the 4th Ultimo,
Lord Granville has not accompanied it by any remark which would
lead to an inference that His Lordship sees reason to dissent
from Lord Monck's opinion as to the question of negotiations for
a reciprocity Treaty, which was conveyed in the Despatch
communicated in your letter of the 6th November last.

*

Assuming, as Lord Clarendon does, that Lord Monck was right in
the opinion thus expressed, it seems to His Lordship that it
would be still more undesirable at the present moment, and with
reference to the hostile feeling in the United States, to
attempt the negotiation of such a Treaty with Their Government.



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No. 87

In consequence of information having reached me of the wreck of
a Bark named "John Bright" supposed to belong to Coquimbo and
sailing under the Chilian Flag, near Nootka Sound on the West
Coast of Vancouver Island, and the supposed murder of her crew
by Indians, I thought it well to cause some investigation to be
made at the scene of the alleged outrages.

2. On my requisition, the Senior Naval Officer at Esquimalt
despatched Her Majesty's Ship "Sparrowhawk," Commander Mist
R.N. and J.P. to convey Mr Ball, Police Magistrate of New
Westminster to Nootka Sound. I have now the honor to report
that the "Sparrowhawk" has returned.

3. The bodies of some of the crew had been buried on the shore;

they were exhumed by order of the Magistrates. A Coroner's
Inquest was held and the Jury returned a verdict of Murder
against two Indians, who have been brought down to Victoria.

4. The Magistrates experienced the utmost difficulty in
obtaining Information from the Indians. There is however little
doubt but that the crew were drowned in their attempts to gain
the land, except one man, and a woman. These two reached the
shore where they were murdered by the Indians.

5. The Assizes are to be held on the 27th Instant, when the
two prisoners will be tried. As soon as the result is known I
will forward a further Statement in regard to this affair.



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No. 88

I have had the honor to receive Your Lordship's Confidential
despatch of 24 March forwarding a letter from W.A. Wells in
reference to the case of "Krog v. Franklyn" which was tried at
the Bristol Assizes in 1858.

2. Your Lordship desires me to obtain an explanation of the
case from Captain Franklyn on the subject. He had, however,
sailed for the Seychelles Islands before I received Your
Lordship's despatch.



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No. 89

I have had the honor to receive Your Lordship's Circular
despatch of the 10th of March forwarding a copy of a letter
from the Science and Art department requesting information as to
the Works on Educational subjects published in this Colony.

2. The population is still so small and is so widely dispersed
that no works on educational subjects, are, here, published
under the authority of the Government.



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Hammond to Under-Secretary of State

With reference to my Letter of the 9th of March I am directed
by the Earl of Clarendon to transmit to you for the information
of Earl Granville, a copy of a despatch from Her Majesty's
Minister at Washington reporting that the further consideration
by the United States Senate of the San Juan Convention, which
was signed by Lord Stanley and Mr Reverdy Johnson, has been
postponed till the next Session of that Body.



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No. 90

I have the honor to forward the last report on his District sent
me by the Police Magistrate of Yale.

It seems to me very satisfactory.

*



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Murray to Under-Secretary of State

With reference to your letter[s] of February 16 and March 3, I am
directed by the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs to
transmit to you, to be laid before Earl Granville, a copy of a
note from the Spanish Minister for Foreign Affairs to Her
Majesty's Minister at Madrid, stating that orders have been
given to the Governors of Spanish Colonies to admit vessels of
British Columbia, Western Australia and the Straits Settlements
to the advantage, secured by the Spanish decree of June 4 1868,
in respect of Port and Navigation dues.



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No. 91

I have the honor to forward an authenticated and two plain
copies of a Bill passed during the recent Session of the
Legislative Council, which I have reserved for Your Lordship's
instructions. It is entitled:

An Ordinance to encourage the Establishment of Investment and
Loan Societies.

2. In face of the objections entertained by the Attorney
General, whose report I enclose, I did not feel at liberty
to assent to the Bill. But there is considerable feeling in favor
of it, as will be seen by the petition I have the honor to forward.

3. My own opinion is
slightly in favor of the measure being allowed to become law.



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No. 92

I have had the honor to receive Your Lordship's despatches as
follows:

Originals No. 20, 7 April, and No. 21, 8 April 1869.

Circulars 29 and 31 March 1869.

Duplicates No. 19, 23 March 1869.

Confidential 24 March 1869.

Circular 10 March 1869.



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No. 32

I am directed by the Secretary of State to acknowledge the receipt
of your Despatch No. 42 of the 19th of March and to convey to you the
confirmation of the leave of absence for twelve months which you have
granted to Mr. John White, Clerk to Magistrate of the Columbia District.



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No. 93

With reference to Your Lordship's despatch No 21 of 8 April
enclosing copy of a letter from the Board of
Trade claiming the sum of £315.16.7 for Stores supplied to the
Vancouver Island lighthouses, I have the honor to inform you
that I have directed the amount to be remitted to the Crown
Agents for payment to the Board of Trade.



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No. 94

This despatch will be delivered at Your Lordship's Office by Mr
W.A.G. Young, of whom so frequent mention has been made in my
recent despatches.



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No. 95

I have had the honor to receive Your Lordship's despatch No. 18
of the 7th March in reference to some Murders which the Indians
in the neighbourhood of Metlakahtla had committed.

2. Your Lordship, does not, I regret to say, consider my
explanation satisfactory. I have only therefore awaited the
return of the Spring to enable me to visit the North West Coast.
I start in Her Majesty's Ship "Sparrowhawk" this afternoon for
Metlakahtla.



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No. 33

I have to acknowledge the receipt of your Despatch No. 40 of the
17th March enclosing a copy of the Speech with which you closed the
Session of the British Columbia Legislature on the 15th of that month.



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Confidential

I have the honor to inform you that Her Majesty's Minister at
Washington has reported to the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
that the consideration of the San Juan Convention has been postponed
till the next Session of the United States Senate.



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No. 34

I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your Despatch No. 25
of the 3rd March, enclosing a copy of a letter addressed to you by the
Attorney General relating to the proceedings which took place in the
Legislative Council on a Motion made by the Senior Member for the City
of Victoria to obtain the reduction of the salaries of those Officers
guaranteed by the "Crown Officers Salaries Act 1863."



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Confidential

With reference to the motion made by Dr. Helmcken in the
Legislative Council to obtain the reduction of the Salaries of those
Officers guaranteed by the "Crown Officers Salaries Act 1863" which
forms the subject of your Despatch No. 25 of the 3rd March and of my
reply No. 34 of this day's date I have to request you to consider
carefully and to report to me whether it would not be advisable either
to reduce the salaries of future holders of the Offices in question or
to abolish some of those Offices, in case a proposal to that effect
should hereafter be carried in the Council.



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No. 35

I have the honor to transmit to you, for your information, copies
of a correspondence which I have received from the Foreign Office on the
subject of the alleged encroachments of the Agents of the Hudsons Bay
Company on the Territory and Trade of Alaska.



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Ransom to Granville

I beg to enclose, as required by our Deed of Settlement, the
half yearly statement of this Bank for the half year ended 31st
December 1868.



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No. 36

I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your Despatch No. 35
of the 10th March, and to convey to you Her Majesty's Gracious
confirmation and allowance of the Ordinance of your Government No. 2 of
1869, entitled "An Ordinance for promoting the Public Health in the
Colony of British Columbia."



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No. 37

I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your Despatch No. 36
of the 10th March, and to convey to you Her Majesty's Gracious
Confirmation and allowance of the Ordinance of your Government No. 4 of
1869, entitled

An Ordinance to enable the Queen Charlotte Coal Mining Company, Limited,
to change their Registered Office from the City of New Westminster to
the City of Victoria.



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No. 38

I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your Despatch No. 37
of the 10th March, and to convey to you Her Majesty's Gracious
confirmation and allowance of the Ordinance of your Government No. 5 of
1869 entitled "An Ordinance respecting the appointment of Commissioners
to take Affidavits and Bail and for the making of Statu[t]ory
Declarations."



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No. 39

I have the honor to convey to you Her Majesty's Gracious
Confirmation and allowance of the Ordinance enclosed in your Despatch
No. 38 of the 12th March and entitled No. 6 of 1869 "An Ordinance
respecting the reconveyance of Vancouver Island to the Crown."



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No. 40

I have the honor to transmit to you, for your information, and with
reference to your despatch No. 134 of the 16th December, a copy of a
note from the Spanish Minister for Foreign Affairs to Her Majesty's
Minister at Madrid, which I have received from the Foreign Office
stating that Orders have been given to the Governors of Spanish Colonies
to admit vessels of British Columbia, Western Australia and the Straits
Settlements to the Advantages secured by the Spanish decree of June 4,
1868 in respect of Port and Navigation dues.



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Torrens to Granville

The Imperial Act of Union of the Colonies of British Columbia
and Vancouver Island having led to a reduction involving the
loss of my Appointment as Clerk of the Legislative Assembly of
the latter Colony, I have for the last two years been an
applicant for, but have not I regret to say been successful in
obtaining, employment under the Colonial Office.

Under these circumstances it has been necessary for me to seek
for occupation elsewhere.

Within the last few days I have been elected Chief Constable of
the Borough of Salford, subject to confirmation of the election
by the General Council of the Corporation at a meeting to be
holden on Wednesday next.

My hands will be strengthened by obtaining from the Colonial
Department permission to refer to them as to the manner in which
my Colonial duties were performed.

This reference the Testimonials I have had the honor of
forwarding to the Colonial Office, Your Lordship will I trust be
of opinion, justify my asking.

His Excellency Governor Seymour in a Despatch stating to His
Grace the late Secretary of State for the Colonies the
circumstances under which I and others lost our Appointments was
pleased to make very favorable mention of my name.



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No. 41

I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your dispatch No. 50
of the 22nd March, and to convey to you Her Majesty's gracious
confirmation and allowance of the Ordinance of your Government No. 12 of
1869 entitled "An Ordinance respecting Stipendiary Magistrates."



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No. 42

I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch No. 51
of the 22nd March, and to convey to you Her Majesty's gracious
confirmation and allowance of the Ordinance of your Government No. 13 of
1869 entitled "An Ordinance to amend the Law of Partnership."



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No. 43

I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your Despatch No. 53
of the 21nd [st] March and to convey to you Her Majesty's gracious
confirmation and allowance of the Ordinance of your Government No. 16 of
1869 entitled "An Ordinance to provide for the maintenance, improvement
and construction of Roads in British Columbia."



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No. 44

I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your Despatch No. 54
of the 22nd March and to convey to you Her Majesty's gracious
confirmation and allowance of the Ordinance of your Government No. 17 of
1869 entitled "An Ordinance respecting the practice of surgery and for
the encouragement of the study of anatomy."



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No. 45

I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch No. 45
of the 19th of March enclosing the ordinance "No. 3 of 1869 to
appropriate the sum of $419,335.50 out of the General Revenue of the
Colony for the contingent service of the year 1869."

I shall not submit that Ordinance for Her Majesty's Confirmation
until I shall have received the Estimates of the Revenue and Expenditure
of British Columbia for that year.



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No. 46

I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch No. 48
of the 22nd March and to convey to you Her Majesty's gracious
confirmation and allowance of the ordinance of your Government No. 7 of
1869

further to extend the time granted to the Harewood Colliery Company,
Limited, by 'The Harewood Railway Company's Act 1864' for making and
completing a tramway from the Company's Mines to Departure Bay, Nanaimo.

I concur with the opinion expressed by yourself and the Attorney
General That no further extension of the rights of the company should be
granted beyond the time fixed by this Ordinance.



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No. 47

I have the honor to inform you that on the 19th March I received
from Mr. A. Watson a letter dated the 14th January with various
enclosures on the subject of his claims to compensation for the loss of
his Office of Treasurer of Vancouver's Island.

As it appeared that Mr. Watson had forwarded copies of that
correspondence to you for transmission to this Department, I deferred
the consideration of his claims in the expectation that you would report
upon them, and that I should ere this have received your report.

The delay which has occurred on your part is fortunately of less
consequence that it might have been under different circumstances, as
the records of this Office have enabled me to arrive at the conclusion
that Mr. Watson has no claim upon the Home Government.

I request you to make known to Mr. Watson my decision upon his
case, and also to explain to him why my decision upon it was delayed.



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No. 48

I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your Despatch No. 63
of the 8th April reporting that you have sworn Mr. Hankin into his Office
of Colonial Secretary of British Columbia.



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Murdoch to Rogers (Permanent Under-Secretary)

I have to acknowledge your letter of 22nd inst with a despatch
from the Governor of B. Columbia enclosing an Ordinance passed
by the Legislature during their last session entitled "An
Ordinance respecting Preemption claims."

2. In the report from the Surveyor General of British Columbia
enclosed in the Governor's despatch of 22nd August last it was
stated that since 1865 numerous applications had been received
for the survey of preempted lands in the old Colony of B. Columbia
with a view to the completion of the purchase, but that after
the survey had been performed only a small proportion of the
applicants paid for the land and took out their grants. The
present Ordinance is passed to meet this inconvenience. With
this view it enacts that the purchase money on preemption
claims, or the unpaid balance, shall be deemed to be due from
the date of the service of an application, signed by the
Commissioner of Works and Surveyor General, notifying the
completion of the survey, and calling for payment. It does not
however provide any summary mode for enforcing the debt, and
leaves the Government therefore no other means of doing so than
by the ordinary course of proceedings at Law. It would, I
think, have been advisable to take the opportunity of this
Ordinance to provide a less dilatory and expensive mode of
enforcing payment. There may be reasons against doing so of
which we are not aware, but Earl Granville may perhaps think it
 right to obtain an explanation on the subject from the Governor
before pronouncing any decision on the Ordinance.



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Murdoch to Rogers (Permanent Under-Secretary)

I have to acknowledge your letter of this day with a despatch
from the Governor of B. Columbia enclosing an Ordinance passed by
the Legislature of that Colony entitled "An
Ordinance to facilitate the working of Mineral Lands."

2. The Attorney General explains that the previous system of
leasing mineral lands, which was copied from the system
prevailing in this country, had become so unpopular—especially
when contrasted with the simpler system prevailing in the United
States—as to repel Capitalists. It became, therefore,
necessary to adopt a new system and with this view a Committee
was appointed to consider the subject, and their report is
enclosed in the Governor's despatch. Eventually the Ordinance
now sent home was after full discussion adopted by the
Legislature, and it is recommended to favorable consideration by
the Governor & Attorney General.

3. The general principle of the Ordinance is to allow any
person to apply for and obtain a prospecting licence for 2 years
renewable for one year more, over a certain extent of mineral
land—and during the currency of the Licence to purchase a
certain extent of the land comprized in it at a fixed price.
The quantity of Land to be included in a prospecting Coal
Licence is to be 500 Acres for an individual, and 2500 for an
Association of 10 or more persons. The quantity to be included
in a Licence to search for silver and the baser minerals is to
be 100 Acres for an individual and 500 Acres for an Association
of 10 or more persons. The quantity of Coal Land that may be
purchased by an individual is not prescribed—but an Association
may purchase not exceeding 1000 Acres at the rate of $5 an Acre.
The quantity of other mineral land that may be purchased by an
individual is 3/5ths of an Acre at the price of $100 or by an
Association 18 Acres at the price of $250—in each case in
addition to the expense of survey. But on proof that $10,000
has been expended on Coal Lands, or on Mineral Lands $1000 by
an individual, or $5000 by an Association, the Governor may
grant the Land without further payment. The Ordinance requires
notice to be given before application for prospecting licences—and
also before the issue of Crown Grants—and in the case of
grants it provides that if an adverse claim is put in all
proceedings shall be stayed till it has been decided by the
proper tribunal. But a Crown Grant when once issued is
indefeasible except in case of fraud or wilful
misrepresentation. The rights of the Crown are reserved, and it
is provided that the Land acquired under the Ordinance shall be
subject to any regulations affecting its acquisition and tenure,
which may from time to time be prescribed by Law.

4. It is anticipated by the Attorney General that the Ordinance
will attract much new Capital and a large settled population to
the Colony, principally, it is to be inferred, from the United
States. If this be so, it will confer an advantage on the
Colony far exceeding its pecuniary results. The only risk
appears to be that speculators may purchase mineral lands under
it with the view, not of working them themselves, but of holding
them over for future sale at an advanced price. This however
may be guarded against by vigilance and caution on the part of
the Government, and if further power is required to do so it may
be obtained under the proviso in the first section which
subjects the acquisition and tenure of land purchased under the
Ordinance to such regulations as may be subsequently established
by Law.

5. Upon the whole I would recommend that the Ordinance should
receive Her Majesty's confirmation. The Governor requests that
the decision may be communicated to him by telegraph in order,
apparently, not to lose the present mining season. Whether H.
Majesty's confirmation of the Ordinance can be conveyed by
telegraph in a sufficiently formal manner to allow of it being
proclaimed at once in the Colony I am not aware.



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No. 49

I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your Despatch No. 68
of the 10th April and to convey to you Her Majesty's gracious
confirmation and allowance of the Ordinance of your Government No. 19 of
1869 entitled the "Game Ordinance 1869."



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No. 50

I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your Despatch No. 69
of the 10th April and to convey to you Her Majesty's gracious
confirmation and allowance of the Ordinance of your Government No. 20 of
1869 entitled

An Ordinance to enable the Municipal Council of the City of Victoria to
establish a permanent fund for the support of the Fire Establishments of
the said City.



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Resolution

Resolved,
That an humble Address be presented to Her Majesty, that She
will be graciously pleased to give directions that there be laid
before this House any Papers on the Union of British Columbia
with the Dominion of Canada.

Ordered, That the said Address be presented to Her Majesty by such
Members of this House as are of Her Majesty's Most Honourable
Privy Council.



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Confidential

I have the honor to transmit to you a Copy of a Confidential
Despatch from the Governor General of Canada suggesting at the instance
of his Ministers that steps should be taken to forward the incorporation
of British Columbia into the Dominion of Canada.

I also enclose a Copy of the reply which I have returned to Sir J.
Young.

I shall be glad to be informed to what extent the majority which
passed the Resolution against Union which accompanied your Despatch No.
26 of the 4th of March was composed of Public Officers.

You are aware that the Hudson's Bay Company have accepted the terms
recently offered to them for the surrender of their Territorial Rights
to the Crown and that in the event of the arrangement being accepted by
the Canadian Government there is every prospect of the annexation of the
Hudson's Bay Company's Territory to Canada.



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Laurie to Under-Secretary of State

I have the honour to acknowledge receipt of your letter of 31st
May with enclosures from British Columbia. The matter referred
to in these papers will receive the attention of the Committee.
But in the meantime I may state, from my own personal knowledge
that no form of Trust Deed or Church Constitution has been
sent by the Church of Scotland to Vancouver Island.



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No. 51

I have to request you to substitute the enclosed Circular for that
addressed to you on the 23rd of April with reference to the use of the
Commercial Code of Signals, as the Board of Trade have pointed out that
"The Code List of Ships" is a distinct publication from "The Mercantile
Navy List," and that consequently the last paragraph of the former
Circular was incorrect.



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No. 52

I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your Despatch No. 59
of the 1st April and to convey to you Her Majesty's Gracious
confirmation and allowance of the Ordinance of your Government No. 23 of
1869 entitled "An Ordinance respecting the property of Religious
Institutions in the Colony of British Columbia."

I do not quite understand however the 11th Section of that
Ordinance. I presume it is intended to cover some irregular proceedings
which took place under a Bill which never became Law. But I do not see
why such a Bill should require repeal.



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Law to Under-Secretary of State

I am directed by the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's
Treasury to transmit to you, herewith, for the information of
the Secretary of State copy of remarks by Mr Tidd Pratt on the
British Columbia Savings Bank Ordinance inclosed in your Letter
of the 22 May; and I am to suggest that the attention of the
Governor should be drawn to Mr Tidd Pratt's observations with a
view to the amendment of the Ordinance in conformity therewith.



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No. 53

I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch No. 77
of the 24th April, and to convey to you Her Majesty's gracious
confirmation and allowance of the Ordinance of your Government No. 26
entitled "An Ordinance to enlarge and amend the Victoria Municipal
Ordinance 1867."



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Lugard to Under-Secretary of State

I am directed by Mr Secretary Cardwell to acknowledge the
receipt of your letter of the 22d Ultimo with enclosures from
the Governor of British Columbia giving cover to an Ordinance,
No 15 of 1869, entitled "an Ordinance to establish a Volunteer
Force" in that Colony.

In reply I am to request that you will acquaint Earl Granville
that Mr Cardwell sees no objection in principle to this Ordinance.



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No. 54

I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your Despatch No. 76
of the 20th April, and to convey to you Her Majesty's Gracious
Confirmation and allowance of the Ordinance of your Government No. 24 of
1869 entitled "An Ordinance respecting Indian Reserves." As large
powers are given by this Ordinance it is very necessary that its
operation should be carefully watched.



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No. 55

I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your Despatch No. 52
of the 22nd March and to convey to you Her Majesty's Gracious
Confirmation and allowance of the Ordinance of your Government No. 15 of
1869, entitled "An Ordinance to establish a Volunteer Force."



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Sargeaunt to Sandford (Assistant Under-Secretary)

In continuation of my letter of the 27th April last, I have the
honor to report, for Earl Granville's information, that the
Crown Agents have since that date received from the Government
of British Columbia further remittances amounting to the sum of
£4000, which, with the balance standing to the credit of that
Colony in the Books of this Office, will be sufficient to meet
the interest falling due on the 1st and 15th proximo.

The contributions to the various Sinking Funds have been paid up
to the close of last year, but those due in January and April
last, amounting in all to £5175, are still in arrear, and the
further sum of £4050 will be due on the same account on the
15th proximo.



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Central Press to Colonial Office

Advices received here
viâ
San Francisco state that the Governor of British Columbia—Mr
Frederick Seymour—died on Thursday last, whilst inspecting the
Coasts of the Colony on board the Gunboat Sparrowhawk. The
senior member of the Council has assumed the lead of the
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No. 1

I deeply regret that it is my painful duty to report to Your
Lordship the death of His Excellency Governor Seymour.

2. On the 17th of May Governor Seymour left Victoria on board
Her Majesty's Ship "Sparrowhawk" on an official visit to
Metlakahtla and the Settlements on the North West Coast of
British Columbia.

3. His Excellency had been in a delicate state of health,
suffering from extreme debility, but no danger was apprehended
by his Medical adviser.

4. Nanaimo, Bella Coola, Bella Bella, and the Missionary
Stations on the Naas River and at Metlakahtla had been visited,
and the Governor was on his return to Victoria when he was
seized, on the 8th Instant, with an attack of Diarrhea and
expired on the 10th Instant on board Her Majesty's Ship
"Sparrowhawk" at Bella Coola.

5. By virtue of Governor Seymour's Commission the duties of
Administering the Government of the Colony devolve upon the
Senior Member of the Executive Council, and I have therefore, as
Colonial Secretary and Senior Member of the Executive Council,
this day, taken the customary oaths of Office as Administrator
and have assumed the Government of this Colony, pending
Instructions from Her Majesty's Government.

6. The Mail leaves for England immediately, but I shall write
more at length by the next Steamer.



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No. 2

I have the honor to report that I have this day appointed Mr
Charles Good, to be Acting Colonial Secretary, pending
instructions from Her Majestys Government.

2. Mr Good has served in the Colonial Secretary's Office for
ten years, during the last two of which he has been Assistant
Colonial Secretary.

3. I consider Mr Good a clever, energetic officer, and a
Gentleman in whom I can place implicit confidence, and I
therefore trust Your Lordship will approve of my having conferred
upon him the acting vacancy.

4. I enclose copy of Mr Good's application and of my reply.



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No. 3

I have the honor to report that I have appointed Mr D.C.
Maunsell, Private Secretary to His Excellency Frederick Seymour,
late Governor of this Colony, to act as my Private Secretary.



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No. 4

I have had the honor to receive Your Lordship's despatches as
follows:

Originals No. 22, 12 April, to No. 31, 8 May 1869.

Confidential 10, 19 and 30 April 1869.

Parliamentary 10 and 20 April; 5 May 1869.

Duplicates No. 20, 7 April, to No. 28, 27 April 1869.

Confidential 10, 19 and 30 April 1869.



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No. 5

I have had the honor to receive Your Lordship's despatches as
follows:

Originals

Circulars 15, 19, 23 and 26 April; 1 and 3 May 1869.

Duplicates

Circulars 29 and 31 March; 1, 15, 19, 23 and 26 April 1869.



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Law to Under-Secretary of State

I am directed by the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's
Treasury to state, for the information of Lord Granville, with
reference to your Letter of the 28th ulto that My Lords see no
objection to the Ordinance of British Columbia, No 14 of 1869,
granting a Supplemental Supply of $134,465 98/100 out of General
Revenue for the Contingent Services of the Years 1866 & 1867.



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No. 56

I sent on the 14 June at 3 o'c a Telegraphic Despatch to Gov.
Seymour in the following words:-

Her Majesty has confirmed Ordinance No. 22 of 1869.



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Telegram

May I come to England for a few weeks before proceeding to
British Columbia direct. Opportunity next week. Important to
convenience of family & for information on public affairs.



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Telegram

Governor Seymour died on board the Sparrow Hawk at Bellacola on
the tenth June while on a tour of inspection along the Northwest
coast of British Columbia. I, as senior member of the Executive
Council have assumed the Government pending instructions and
have appointed Mr Good to act as Colonial Secretary.



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Telegram

Governor Seymour died on tenth June on board the Sparrow Hawk
when returning from the Northern Coast.



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No. 57

I sent on the 15th inst. at 4 o'Clock a Telegraphic Despatch to you
in the following words:-

Mr. Musgrave is appointed Governor. You may announce that he will
proceed to British Columbia immediately.



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No. 58

I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of Govr. Seymour's
Despatch No. 70 of the 13th April and to convey to you Her Majesty's
gracious confirmation and allowance of the Ordinance of your Government
No. 22 of 1869 entitled "An Ordinance to facilitate the working of
mineral lands." I transmit to you for your information a copy of a
Report upon that Ordinance by the Emigration Commissioners to whom it
was referred.

My Despatch No. 56 of the 15th June will have informed you that on
the 14th Instant I notified to you by Telegraph, Her Majesty's
confirmation of the Ordinance.



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Hill to Granville

I have just heard that the Government of British Columbia is
vacant and I beg leave to offer myself as a Candidate for that
Government.

I have served Forty four Years including Eighteen Years as
Governor & Governor in Chief and Eight Years as Consul General,
and I trust my long and faithful Services in the worst climates
including Eleven Years on the West Coast of Africa may be
considered a claim for employment.

The Records of my Conduct and Character as Soldier and Governor
are in the Colonial Office and I may venture to assure your
Lordship that few Governors have higher Testimonials, and whilst
I have on all occasions Carried into Effect the Instructions of
the Colonial Minister it has been my Good fortune as shown by
the Valedictory Address forwarded to Your Lordship to have won
the respect and Confidence of all classes of Her Majesty's
Subjects under my administration.

Should you My Lord be graciously pleased to entrust to my Care
the Government of British Columbia it will be my earnest
endeavour to Merit the Confidence reposed in Me, and I shall
ever feel grateful to Your Lordship's Generous Consideration of
my Services.



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No. 59

I have received with much regret the intelligence of the Death of
Mr. Frederic Seymour on the 10th Instant and I must beg you to convey to
Mrs. Seymour the expression of my sincere sympathy for her under this
great and sudden calamity.

Mr. Seymour has carried the Colony through a period of no ordinary
difficulty which I am aware has imposed on him great anxiety and much
personal inconvenience, and though I know that much remains to be done
and that the revival of prosperity which has been so severely shaken must
be slow, I have pleasure in recording the energy with which after the
annexation he applied himself to the thankless task of retrenchment, and
to the improvement of its Financial position.

In the somewhat critical circumstances of the Colony, I lose no
time in notifying to you formally Her Majesty's approval of the
appointment of Mr. Anthony Musgrave, at present Governor of Newfoundland
to succeed to the Government of British Colombia. Of this I have
already informed you by Telegraph.

A Lieutenant Governor's Commission will be forwarded to Mr.
Musgrave by the next Mail and he will be instructed on it's receipt to
proceed at once to British Columbia, whither his Commission as Governor
will follow him as soon as it can be prepared.



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No. 6

I have the honor to forward copies of the Government Gazettes
Extraordinary issued in consequence of the death of His
Excellency Governor Seymour.



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No. 7

I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of Your Lordship's
despatch forwarding the undermentioned Parliamentary papers:
Blue Book Reports, 1867—Part I, 4 copies.



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No. 8

I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of Your Lordship's
despatch forwarding the undermentioned Parliamentary papers:
Railway Accidents. Part 4 & 5, 1869, 2 copies.



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No. 9

I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of Your Lordship's
despatch forwarding the undermentioned Parliamentary papers:
Rule of the Road at Sea, 4 copies.



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Moody to Granville

It is so currently & confidently reported that Governor Seymour
has recently died at Victoria, that I venture—with the utmost
deference—to submit my name to you, offering my services as his
successor.

Naturally there will be many applicants tendering claims with
recommendations. On my own part I would only ask your Lordship
to consider my hearty devotion to the public service for many
years, and how much of it was in high office in the Colonial Department.

With respect to British Columbia I think I may submit that from
a variety of circumstances there are few who know the people of
that Colony and their interests better perhaps on the whole at
present, and few who would now have a better prospect of being
able to reconcile local disagreements and to remove an
irritating intensified and injurious dissatisfaction existing on
the part of a strong minority.

I believe also, judging from past experience there & in similar
positions—I would be found to possess some advantage in
encouraging the self-reliance of all.

I entered the Public Service in 1830 and am now Fifty Six years
of age, entirely unoccupied and free for any duty.

The Union of the two Colonies having been effected, and the Seat
of Government determined by the Colonists themselves there is
no question on which I at present entertain any special views
beyond perhaps the desirability of bringing about the
Confederation with the Dominion of Canada at the earliest possible date.

On this subject if your Lordship be disposed to examine me, I am
ready to submit my views based on facts of much weight.



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Wylly to Granville

The Memorial of Charles Graham Wylly lately Assessor of the
Colony of Vancouver Island and its Dependencies, humbly Sheweth:

That Your Memorialist, at the date of the Union of the Colonies,
was Assessor of Vancouver Island, having held that office since
January, 1863.

The Assessorship, under the provisions of the "Real Estate Tax
Amendment Act, 1862," of the Colony of Vancouver Island, was
declared
permanent; the Governor, for the time being, of the Colony, being
required to appoint a
"permanent Assessor."

The necessity for the office, (to which was attached a Salary of
£500 Sterling per annum,) having ceased, through the union of
British Columbia and Vancouver Island, the repeal of the Act
under which the Assessorship was created, took place.

Following such repeal by the "Real Estate Tax Repeal Ordinance,
1867" and on notification of the abolition of the office, Your
Memorialist preferred a claim for compensation.

This claim was objected to, on the ground that the appointment
was merely a local one, not of Crown creation, and "permanent"
only So long "as the local Act under which it was created, was
in existence."

In reply to this objection, and further in behalf of the claim,
as urged in the correspondence with the Government of British
Columbia, Your Memorialist would respectfully Submit That,
inasmuch as by the Vancouver Island Act of 1862, the office was
declared
permanent, So, the holder thereof, at once became invested with
certain rights, and So had a
permanent interest in the emoluments of the office, and that its
abolition, not brought about by any action of the Assessor, but
Simply by reason of the necessities of the State, could not
divest that officer of his interest therein; moreover, that
although the office might be abolished by the Legislature, yet,
that the emoluments attached thereto, and vested in the
Assessor, could not be confiscated, except by express terms, the
absence of which, in the Ordinance repealing the Act of 1862,
must, therefore, be held to be restrictive of the power
conferred by that Ordinance.

This, indeed, is the more plain, when it is Seen, that the
Ordinance of 1867, while repealing the "Real Estate Tax
Amendment Act, 1862," actually, by its provisions, Saved
existing rights, So far as the Government had acquired a right
under that Act, and consequently, it must follow, that the
rights of the Assessor, as acquired under that Act, must, in
like manner, be considered, Saved.

Your Memorialist therefore prays that relief may be afforded
him, and that the justice of the claim, as advanced, may be
admitted; its merits, and its merits alone, constituting
its best title to consideration.

But Your Memorialist
as in duty bound, will ever pray &c



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Fisher to R. Gladstone

I take the liberty of forwarding to you the enclosed letter of
introduction given me by my Fathers friend Mr Avison. I was
anxious to deliver the same to you personally & explain more
fully my mission, but your not being at home and my presence
being required in London prevented me from so doing. I am sent
to this country from British Columbia as a delegate to present
certain petitions from the colonists to the Government one of
which I beg to enclose & I should feel greatly obliged to you if
you would kindly help me in any way to further the difficult
tasks I have undertaken.

I venture to ask you in the first place for a letter to the
Prime minister as I am most anxious to obtain a short interview
with him, or the Sec: of State for the colonies to enable me to
bring my case before them. And secondly if you could give me
any letters of introduction to Members of Parliament they would
materially further my cause & I think after the explanations
which I could give them would assist me. I regret troubling
you in the matter, but my deep anxiety to do the best I can for
the distant colony which I have been sent home to represent will
I trust excuse me for the liberty I have taken in writing to you.

Trusting that my request may meet with your favorable consideration.



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No. 10

I have the honor to transmit to Your Lordship copy of a letter
addressed to Governor Seymour by Mr W.A.G. Young, late Acting
Colonial Secretary of British Columbia making application for
some retiring Allowance or Pension consequent on his loss of Office.

2. The Passage money of Mr Young, his wife and family to
England was paid by the Colony. I enclose copy of the
correspondence on the subject of Mr Young's application.



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No. 11

I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of Your Lordship's
despatches marked "Confidential" of the 19th and 30th April,
respecting the appointment of myself as Colonial Secretary of
British Columbia.

2. Governor Seymour's despatch No. 63 of 8th April will have
informed your Lordship that the arrangements made by the Duke of
Buckingham and Chandos have been carried into effect by the
swearing in of Myself as Colonial Secretary.

3. No disastrous consequences have arisen, neither do I
apprehend the slightest probability of any arising.



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Sproat to Granville

I respectfully beg leave to place my name before your Lordship,
and under the circumstances hereafter stated, to make
application for the appointment of Governor of British Columbia,
which office has been vacated by the lamented death of Governor Seymour.

1. My direct services under the Crown are having for four
years, been sole magistrate, also Collector of Customs and
Superintendent of Indian affairs on the West Coast of Vancouver Island.

2. Under a commission from Sir Jas Douglas, I organised the
first local military force in that Colony. I was also nominated
a Member of Council.

3. In the performance of my magisterial duties I was, on one
occasion, severely wounded.

4. Having visited the colony on special business, I was unable
to take any greater part in colonial affairs.

5. I have independent means, and should not desire to remain in
the Colonial Service.

6. I am deeply sensible that the above services are not highly
important, and that under ordinary circumstances I could not
venture to urge a consideration of this application beside that
of other gentlemen of superior official and personal claims.

7. British Columbia is however, at present in a peculiar
condition, and many persons think that a special appointment
would be suitable to its circumstances. I enclose, marked A, a
short Memorandum, to illustrate this peculiar condition of the
Colony.

8. The following are the special grounds on which I make the
present application

(1) My appointment is desired by the principal persons in
this country connected with British Columbia.
In proof of this I refer in London to the Bank of British
Columbia; Messrs Anderson, Thomson & C[o], Billiter Court;
Messrs [Copistake?],

Moore & Co, Cheapside; Messrs Findlay & Durham, Great St
Helens, and the other leading merchants and property holders
connected with the Colony.

In Liverpool, to Mr Graves, M.P. In Edinburgh, to Mr
McLaren, M.P.

(2) It is believed my appointment would be acceptable to
the colonists.
On this point, I enclose Testimonials, marked B, from men of
different classes and professions and of position and
reputation, well acquainted with British Columbia and the Colonists.

(3) Circumstances have given me special knowledge of the
native population,
as appears in the above Testimonials, and also in the Press
Notices, herewith sent, marked C, of a book which I published
last year about the Indians.

(4) I am well known in Canada and acquainted with its
institutions.
I have been recommended by influential Canadians to the Privy
Council of Canada for the Lieut Governorship of the North West
Territory, and my application for that office is now before the
Privy Council. I feel, however, that I could aid the
consolidation of the Dominion more effectually in British Columbia.

9. Public opinion in British Columbia is far from ripe as
regards Confederation. A knowledge of the various sectional
interests in British Columbia, and a knowledge of Canada itself,
would probably assist a Governor in guiding British Columbian
opinion in the desired direction, without risking a reproduction
of the Nova Scotian difficulty on the Pacific side of the Continent.

10. In the enclosed paper marked D, I have stated some
additional particulars of my education and history. I refer
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No. 60

I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of Governor Seymour's
Despatch No. 71 of the 14th April enclosing an Ordinance passed by the
Government of British Columbia No. 25, 15 March/69 entitled "An
Ordinance to amend the County Courts Ordinance 1867."

Assuming that there is no intention to call upon any Officer to
refund any money which he has already received, I submitted this
Ordinance to Her Majesty, and I now have to convey to you Her Majesty's
gracious approval and confirmation of it.



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No. 61

I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of Mr. Seymour's
Despatch No. 34 of the 10th March and to convey to you Her Majesty's
Gracious Confirmation and Allowance of the Ordinance No. 1 of 1869,
enacted by the Government of British Columbia and entitled "An Ordinance
for the establishment of Savings Banks within the Colony."

I transmit to you however, for the consideration of the Legislative
Council a copy of a Report by Mr. Tidd Pratt upon the provisions
of that Ordinance.



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Villars to Under-Secretary of State

I am requested by a number of gentlemen who desire to present a
Memorial to Earl Granville on the unfortunate condition of the
Colony of British Columbia, to ask if his Lordship could favor
them with an interview for this purpose.

The Memorial is short, and a few gentlemen only will present it,
and will not occupy much of his Lordship's time.



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No. 12

I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt on the 18th Instant
of Your Lordship's Telegram in the following words:

Captain Lascelles died in Vancouver. By desire of the family I
request you to give any advice or assistance to Mr Southgate
which you can properly afford.

2. I immediately informed Mr Southgate of Your Lordship's
instructions.

3. Captain Lascelles was buried on the 17th Instant in the
Naval Cemetery at Esquimalt, and was followed to the Grave by
the Officers, Seamen and Marines of Her Majesty's Ships in the
Harbour, together with a numerous body of the inhabitants.

4. I had been personally acquainted with Captain Lascelles for
many years and I greatly regret that owing to the departure of
the Mail Steamer I was unable to be present at his funeral.



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No. 13

With reference to Your Despatch No 23 of 13th April,
transmitting
copy of a letter from the Crown Agents, respecting the
liabilities of this Government on account of the British
Columbia and Vancouver Island Loans, both as regards interest
and Sinking fund, I have the honor to report to Your Lordship
the course which has been pursued in this matter.

2. The sum to be remitted yearly to England on account of
Sinking Fund and Interest is about Twenty five thousand pounds
(£25,000), and it has been our custom to forward a sum of Two thousand
pounds (£2000), on the 1st of each month, with an extra sum of One
thousand pounds (£1000) in the Month of June to make up the amount.

3. During the year 1869 this has been done with great
regularity; the sums forwarded having been as follows—

January
£1500

February
2000

March
2160

April
2000

May
2000

June
3500

Total
£13160

or a sum of Thirteen thousand one hundred and sixty pounds, in
six months.

Occasionally, however, consequent on the great irregularity of
our Mails the monthly payment may have been deferred for two or
three weeks and thus has arisen the apparent irregularity
complained of in Your Lordship's Despatch No 23 of 13th April.

4. The payments for the remainder of the year, will be
regularly made as follows—

July
£2500

August
2000

September
2300

October
2000

November
2000

December
2000

I beg to solicit Your Lordships approval of this arrangement,
and will be glad to know if such payments will be considered
sufficient to meet the regular and incidental liabilities of the
Colony for the remainder of the year, or if any larger sums are
considered necessary for that purpose.



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No. 14

The account with Her Majesty's Government in respect of
expenditure for the Detachment of Royal Marines stationed on the
Island of San Juan being now overpaid by this Government, I have
the honor to acquaint Your Lordship that I have this day drawn
upon Her Majesty's Paymaster General in the usual manner for the
sum of Fifteen hundred pounds (£1500), and I request Your Lordship will
cause the Bill to be accepted on presentation.



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No. 15

In conformity with the instructions contained in Your Lordship's
despatch No. 26 of 23rd April, I have the honor to state that
the sums of ten pounds eight shillings and three pence (£10.8.3),
and ten pounds four shillings (£10.4) have been remitted to the Crown
Agents for payment to the Admiralty.



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No. 16

I have had the honor to receive, on the 15th Instant, a
telegram from Your Lordship in the following words:

Mr Musgrave is appointed Governor, you may announce that he
will proceed to British Columbia immediately.



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No. 17

I have the honor to forward a correspondence addressed to Your
Lordship by Mr G.W. Cox [W.G. Cox]
late Stipendiary Magistrate of this
Colony, with a copy of a letter from Mr Cox 
to Governor Seymour requesting that the correspondence might be forwarded.

2. I have inquired carefully into this matter, in order to give Your Lordship every information in my power, and I find that
when the reductions consequent on the Union of the Colonies and
the failing state of the Revenue were made, Mr Cox as Junior
Stipendiary Magistrate, was the first among that class of
Officers whose appointment was abolished.

*

3. He was however, by letter of the 1st May, and the subject
is again enlarged upon in the letter of the 11th May (both
enclosed) offered another appointment of a less pecuniary value
certainly, but he was to retain his Commission and act as
Justice of the Peace.

4. This appointment Mr Cox declined to accept.

5. Subsequently Mr Cox received Three hundred pounds (£300),
as full compensation for loss of Office.

6. With regard to Mr Cox's claim for Salary for the Months of
June and July 1868, I do not see how such claim can be
maintained for by the Colonial Secretary's letter of 28th May
1868 he was informed that the abolition of his Office would take
place on the 31st May.

7. The case of Mr Harbor Master Cooper to which Mr Cox
refers, I scarcely think parallel.

**

He came forward, and offered to resign his
Office (an Office which had been specially created by the
Imperial Government in 1858), for a specific sum of £600, which
offer the Government of British Columbia accepted.

8. Mr Cox's case was fully, and frequently gone into, by the
late Governor in Council, and it was then clearly decided, that
the compensation made had been ample, and I have no reasons to
offer to Your Lordship for reversing that decision.

9. I am not acquainted with Mr Cox myself, but I have always
understood he proved himself an energetic and painstaking Officer.



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No. 18

I have had the honour to receive, on this date, the following
despatches from Your Lordship:

Originals No. 32, 15 May, to No. 48, 28 May 1869.

Confidentials 18 and 19 May 1869.

Parliamentary 14 May 1869.

Duplicates No. 29, 1 May, to No. 35, 19 May 1869.

Confidentials 18 and 19 May 1869.

Circulars 1, 3, 8, 12 and 18 May 1869.



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No. 19

I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt, on this date, of
Your Lordship's despatch forwarding the undermentioned
Parliamentary papers:
Railway Accidents, Part I, 1869. 2 copies.



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No. 20

I have had the honor to receive a telegram from Your Lordship on
the 15th Instant, in the following words—

Ask Mrs Seymour whether she would like either of her brothers to
go out to her or to meet her at Panama. Answer by Telegraph.

2. I replied on the 18th Instant—

Mrs Seymour goes home soon with Reverend and Mrs Hayman and
Lowndes. Does not wish her brother to come. All quite quiet.



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No. 21

With reference to your Lordship's Despatch No. 45 of 24th May,
relative to the Appropriation Ordinance for 1869, No. 3, I have
the honor to enclose a copy of the Estimates of Revenue and
Expenditure upon which that Ordinance was founded.



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Payne to Under-Secretary of State

Can you inform me how I can procure the Certificates of Marriage
& burial of John William Wignell who was killed in a coal mine
in British Columbia about this time last year. The name of
the place is
"Nanaimo."

This information is required by his relations in England & is of
great importance to them. I have enquired at Somerset House
where they referred me to your Office. If the Certificates
can be obtained thro your office please let me know the amount
of fees &c & I will remit the amount to you. I enclose a
stamped & directed envelope for reply & remain, Sir



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Secret

I transmit to you a copy of an Extract from a letter addressed by
the Consul General at New York to the Governor General of Canada which
has been received in a Despatch from Sir John Young.

Though I cannot regard it as very probable that a Fenian raid will
be made on Vancouver Island, I have thought it right to place you in
possession of this statement of Mr. Archibald's opinion in order that you
may exercise all necessary vigilance in the matter.



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No. 62

I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of Governor Seymour's
despatch No. 55 of the 23rd March and to convey to you Her Majesty's
gracious confirmation and allowance of the Ordinance passed by the
Government of British Columbia No. 14 of 1869 entitled

An Ordinance granting a supplemental supply of $134,465 98/100 out of
General Revenue for contingent services of the years 1866 and 1867.



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No. 22

I have the honor to transmit for Your Lordship's information,
and with reference to my despatch No. 1 of 14th Instant,
reporting upon the death of Governor Seymour, copy of a report
which I have received from Mr Trutch, Chief Commissioner of
Lands and Works, who accompanied Governor Seymour in Her
Majesty's Ship "Sparrowhawk" on his visit to the North West
Coast of British Columbia.

*

2. All has been perfectly quiet here, and no inconvenience has
arisen to the Public Service from my having assumed the
Government of the Colony.



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Sproat to Granville

Having been informed that Mr Musgrave, Governor of
Newfoundland, is a candidate for the Governorship of British
Columbia, I respectfully beg leave to withdraw the application
which I made for that office.

Mr Musgrave's appointment, if I may be permitted to say so,
will give much satisfaction both in Canada and in British Columbia.



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No. 63

I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of Governor Seymour's
despatch No. 49 of the 22 March and to convey to you Her Majesty's
gracious confirmation and allowance of the Ordinance passed by the
British Columbia Legislature and entitled No. 1 of 1869 "An Ordinance
respecting Pre-emption claims."

I transmit to you however for the consideration of the Council a
copy of a report upon the provisions of that Ordinance by the Emigration
Commissioners.



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No. 23

In obedience to the instructions conveyed in Your Lordship's
despatch No. 47 of 27th May, I have informed Mr Alexander
Watson that your Lordship has arrived at the conclusion that he
has no claim on the Home Government.



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No. 24

I have had the honor to receive, on this date, the following
despatches from Your Lordship:

Originals No. 49, 1 June, to No. 52, 4 June 1869.

Confidential 2 June 1869.

Circular 24 May 1869.

Duplicates No. 36, 21 May, to No. 48, 28 May 1869.



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No. 25

With reference to the Duke of Buckinghams despatch No 44, of
7th July 1868, I have the honor to inform Your Lordship that I
have this day drawn two Bills for the sum of One hundred and
fifty pounds (£150) each on Her Majesty's Paymaster General to
reimburse this Government for payments made on account of
Imperial Pensioners resident in British Columbia up to the 30th
June last, and to place the Colonial Treasury in funds to meet
future disbursements.

2. The Accounts and Vouchers will be transmitted by the next Mail.



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Tilley to Rogers (Permanent Under-Secretary)

With reference to your letter of the 3rd of April last,
enclosing a copy of a despatch from the Governor of British
Columbia, I beg leave to state, for the information of Earl
Granville, that I have caused to be prepared a statement
shewing, on one hand, the amounts paid by this Department for
conveyance of mails to and from British Columbia during the year
1868, and, on the other hand, the amounts paid by the Colonial
Government.

The Balance shewn by the statement in question to be due to the
Colonial Government is £536.12.11; and I have caused that amount
to be paid to the credit of the Colony with the Crown Agents for
the Colonies.

I enclose a copy of the statement, which I request you will be
so good as to transmit to the Governor of British Columbia.



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No. 26

With reference to the despatches noted in the margin,

*

I have the honor to transmit copy of a letter which I have received from
Mr J.W. Trutch, Chief Commissioner of Lands and Works.

2. I am informed by Governor Seymour's Private Secretary that
he is fully aware it was the intention of the late Governor,
immediately on his return from Metlakahtla to notify to Your
Lordship that any reasons which might have existed to prevent
Mr Trutch from continuing to hold the appointment of Chief
Commissioner of Lands and Works were removed.

3. I am in a position to acquaint Your Lordship that Mr Trutch
has proved to my entire satisfaction, by the production of the
necessary legal documents, that he has divested himself, since
the 5th January 1869 of all pecuniary interest or connection
whatsoever in the Tolls of the Alexandra Bridge.



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No. 64

I transmit to you with reference to my Despatch of the 8th May,
No. 31, a copy of a letter from the Crown Agents dated the 10th Ultimo,
reporting that remittances had been received from British Columbia,
sufficient to meet the interest on their Loans falling due on the 1st
and 13th of this month, but that a sum of £5175 was still due for
contribution to the Sinking Fund, which will be increased by a further
sum of £4050 on the 15th of this month.

The Despatch which I addressed to the late Governor on the 13th
April, No. 23, has so clearly pointed out the necessity of punctual
remittances being made for the payment of Interest and Sinking Fund and
the serious consequences to the Colony if they are not made, that I need
only call your attention to it.



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No. 65

I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of Governor Seymour's
Despatch, No. 74, of the 16th of April and to convey to you Her
Majesty's Gracious confirmation and Allowance of the British Columbia
Ordinance, No. 10 of 1869, entitled "An Ordinance for the better
protection of Cattle, and the better prevention of Cattle Stealing."



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Law to Under-Secretary of State

I am directed by the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's
Treasury to acquaint you, for the information of Lord Granville,
with reference to your Letter of the 28th April last inclosing
an Account of Receipts & Expenditure for Military Services at S.
Juan to 31 December 1868, that, upon the examination of the
Accounts there appears to be an error of 11s/- in totalling
the Vouchers for Colonial Pay for December 1867, the several
sums paid being only £151.5.6, while £151.16.6 is the amount
shewn in the Voucher.

My Lords request that instructions may be given to the Colonial
Government of British Columbia to adjust this error in the next
Account for this service.



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No. 66

With reference to Governor Seymour's Despatch, No. 7, of the 21st
of January, I have the honor to transmit to you a copy of a letter from
the Secretary to the General Post Office, with a statement which has
been prepared in that Department, to which the Despatch was referred, of
the account between your Government and the General Post Office, for
the conveyance of Mails to and from British Columbia during the Year
1868.

I have authorized the Agents to place to the credit of your
Government the Balance of £536-12-11 which is shewn by the statement to
be due to the Colony.



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No. 67

I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of Governor Seymour's
Despatch No. 79 of the 26th of April, and to convey to you Her Majesty's
Confirmation and allowance of the British Columbia Ordinance No. 18 of
1869, entitled—

An Ordinance to amend the Procedure in Civil cases.



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No. 68

I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of Governor Seymour's
Despatch No. 80 of the 16th of April, forwarding a Bill passed by the
Legislative Council of British Columbia during its late Session
entitled:

An Ordinance respecting the Companies Ordinance, 1866.

I see no reason why you should not give your assent to this Bill.



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Sargeaunt to Sandford (Assistant Under-Secretary)

I have the honor to apply for Earl Granville's authority to pay
a sum of £315.16.7 to the Board of Trade, as requested by the
enclosed letter from the Colonial Secretary of British Columbia.

Since my letter of the 10th ultimo, reporting the state of the
British Columbia account, the Crown Agents have received a
further bill for £2000 which will mature on the 6th September last.



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No. 69

I have the honor to enclose for your information a copy of a letter
from the Board of Treasury pointing out an error in the accounts of
receipt and expenditure up to the 31st of December 1868 for services in
connection with the Military occupation of San Juan Island transmitted
with Governor Seymour's Despatch No. 21 of the 20th of February last.

In compliance with the wishes of the Board of Treasury I have to
instruct you to have this error adjusted in the next account for this
service.



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Confidential

I have the honor to report that George Francis Train has visited
Victoria.

2. Train had been for some weeks in San Francisco delivering
lectures. He threatened to land in British Columbia with 2000
men and take possession of the Colony.

3. From San Francisco he visited Portland, and a few days
before he arrived here, the Senior Naval Officer on this
Station, Captain Edye, of Her Majesty's Ship "Satellite,"
received a telegram from the British Consul at San Francisco,
informing him that Train had left that place and might be
expected in Victoria.

4. The day before he arrived I received information through a
Private Telegram that he would come here in a Steamer called the
"Wilson G. Hunt," a regular trader between Victoria and the
Ports on Puget Sound.

5. As the day on which Train was expected by the "W.G. Hunt,"
was not the regular day for that vessel to arrive, it created
some uneasiness in my mind, and I made application to the Senior
Naval Officer for the Gun Boat "Forward" to be sent round and
anchored in Victoria Harbour, in order that we might be prepared
to repel any acts of aggression on the part of Train or his
followers; I thought it just possible he might endeavour to
create some disturbance in the Town. However, he arrived
quietly in the "Wilson G. Hunt" and left a few hours afterwards
by the same vessel and I see no reason to apprehend any
disturbance.

6. I enclose copy of a letter on the subject from the Police
Magistrate together with a Report from the Inspector of Police.
I add an extract from our local Newspaper of this day's date.



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No. 27

I have had the honor to receive, on this date, the
undermentioned despatches from Your Lordship:

Originals No. 53, 7 June, to No. 55, 10 June 1869.

Circular 7 June 1869.

Duplicates No. 49, 1 June, to No. 52, 4 June 1869.

Confidential 2 June 1869.

Circular 24 May 1869.



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No. 28

I have the honor to inform Your Lordship of the arrival in
Esquimalt Harbour on the 7th Instant, of the French Frigate, "L'
Astree," bearing the Flag of Rear Admiral Cloue, together with
the Despatch Vessel "La Mothe Piquet," Captain St. Hilaire.

2. The Admiral called on me the day of his arrival, and on the
following day I returned his visit, accompanied by the Colonial
and Private Secretaries. On leaving the Ship I was saluted
with thirteen guns, which was returned by Her Majesty's Ship
"Satellite."

3. I explained to Admiral Cloue that I was unable to receive
him at Government House as I had placed the House at the
disposal of the late Governor's widow.

4. My relations with the Admiral have been most cordial and
friendly. I entertain him and his officers at my own private
residence this Evening.

5. The French Men-of-War remain here for another week and then
proceed to visit the Sandwich Islands.



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Villars to Granville

I had the honour at the request of a number of gentlemen
interested in British Columbia to address Your Lordship on the
19th of June on the subject of the presentation of a Memorial
on the condition of that Colony.

Not having received any reply to the above letter, owing
doubtless to the great pressure on Your Lordships time, I am
directed to enclose the Memorial for Your Lordship's
consideration and to state that the gentlemen who proposed
presenting the Memorial personally are unable to remain in town.

The Memorialists have large interests at stake in British
Columbia and desire to call Your Lordship's serious attention to
the condition of the Colony; and to the difficulty with which
the few remaining Colonists can bear the heavy public expenditure.

The words quoted in this Memorial "that the Colony is slowly
dying out &c" were written lately to one of the Memorialists by Sir
James Douglas K.C.B. formerly Governor of British Columbia, who
now resides in the Colony.

They express a truth that is well known to the Memorialists and
to all persons connected with British Columbia.



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Fisher to Granville

As a delegate from the Municipal council of the city of New
Westminster British Columbia I beg most respectfully to solicit
the favor of an interview with Your Lordship regarding the
enclosed petition a copy of which I have been instructed to
present to Her Majesty the Queen. Awaiting your Lordships
convenience and wishing for your favorable consideration.



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No. 70

I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of Governor Seymour's
Despatch No. 78 of the 26th of April, and to convey to you Her Majesty's
Gracious confirmation and allowance of the British Columbia Ordinance
No. 9 of 1869, entitled, "An Ordinance to provide for the fencing of
land in British Columbia."



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Cole to Under-Secretary of State

I am directed by the Lords of the Committee of Council on
Education to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the
14th instant, transmitting copies of Despatches from the
Governors of British Columbia and Mauritius respecting the
publication, under Government Authority, in those Colonies
of works upon Educational subjects.



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Note

Mr Rathbone's notice of motion respecting the removal of
the seat of Government.
———————-
(Missing)



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No. 71

I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of Governor Seymour's
Despatch No. 91 of the 13th of May forwarding a Bill passed during the
recent Session of the Legislative Council of British Columbia, entitled
"An Ordinance to encourage the establishment of Investment and Loan
Societies."

In reply I have to inform you that it is probable that the Bill
will require amendment, but having passed the Legislative Council, I see
no such objection to its provisions as would require you to withhold
your assent to it.

I take this opportunity of informing you that as a general rule it
is desirable when a decided opposition has been made to an Ordinance
during its progress through Council that that fact should be stated in
the Despatch submitting the Ordinance for Her Majesty's sanction, and
that at the same time extracts of so much of the Minutes of the
Legislative Council as relate to the subject should be transmitted for
the information of the Secretary of State.

This rule would of course apply to all cases in which the governor
has thought proper to withhold his assent to a Bill which has been passed
by the Legislative Council.



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No. 72

I sent on the 6th Instant at 4 o'Clock a Telegraphic
Despatch to you in the following words:

You may draw at ten days sight on Paymaster General for allowance of
£800 advising this Office of the Bill.

.Par
The Message was addressed to you at Newfoundland and was in reply
to your Despatch No. 50 of the 21st Ultimo requesting the issue to you of
the usual Passage Allowance grantable to Officers proceeding to British
Columbia to Administer the Government of that Colony.



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No. 73

I have the honor to inform you that you are at liberty to give your
assent to the bill enclosed in Governor Seymour's despatch No. 72 of the
15th of April entitled "An Ordinance to extend certain provisions of
18th and 19th Victoria Cap: 90 to the Colony of British Columbia."



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Fletcher to Granville

I take the liberty of sending the enclosed statement just
received from my Son, Mr W.H. Fletcher, who is a settler at
Bella Coola, British Columbia, which he wishes me to lay before
your notice, & by a notice of the case to the new British Governour

from you, it might be productive of great protection to
the White Settlers in British Columbia.

Your Lordship may safely rely upon the truth of my Son's
statement in every particular, and, apologising for thus
troubling your Lordship,



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Confidential

I have had the honor to receive Your Lordship's despatch marked
"Confidential", of 2nd June, directing the late Governor
Seymour to report to what extent the Majority which passed the
Resolution against Confederation with Canada was composed of
Public Officers, and transmitting copy of a confidential
despatch, together with copy of Your Lordship's reply thereto,
from the Governor General of Canada, suggesting that steps
should be taken to forward the incorporation of British Columbia
into the Dominion of Canada.

2. I requested the Members of the Executive Council to report
confidentially to me on the Debates which took place in the
Legislative Council on the subject of Confederation with Canada
as I was not a Member of that Body at the time.

3. Your Lordship will perceive by these opinions, which I have
the honor to enclose, that the late Governor left it entirely an
open question as to the manner in which each official Member
should vote.

4. The proceedings in the Legislative Council on this subject
are now printed and I enclose a copy. The Majority which passed
the Resolution against Union consisted of eleven Members, only
five of whom were connected in any way with the Government. The
Minority, in favour of Union, were Messrs Havelock, Humphrey's,
Carrall, Robson and Walkem, the last three named Gentlemen
natives of the Dominion.

5. It appears to me to be the general opinion that until
communication through British Territory is established those who
are most interested in the welfare of British Columbia will be
opposed to Confederation.



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Villars to Granville

Having been absent from town, I am only today in receipt of Your
Lordship's letter of the 14th inst. appointing Friday last at 4
O'Clock for an interview in reference to the Memorial on the
condition of British Columbia referred to in my letter of 19th
June and enclosed to Your Lordship on the 12th July.

In my letter of the latter date I mentioned to Your Lordship
that those gentlemen, specially Mr Fraser, Mr Dallas, Mr
Anderson & Mr Beeton, who signed the Memorial on the 19th
June, and who from their personal knowledge of the Colony could
have given useful information to Your Lordship were unable to
remain in town after the 12th July.

I was consequently instructed at the latter date to enclose the
Memorial in a letter for Your Lordship's consideration in
preference to asking for an interview, which without the
presence of the gentlemen above named would not probably have
been attended with satisfactory practical results.



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No. 29

I have had the honor to receive, on this date, the
undermentioned despatches from Your Lordship:

Originals No. 56, 15 June, to No. 61, 19 June 1869.

Circulars 10, 11 and 17 June 1869.

Duplicates No. 53, 7 June, to No. 59, 17 June 1869.

Circulars 7 and 11 June 1869.



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No. 30

I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of Your Lordships
despatch No 59 of 17th June, directing me to convey to Mrs
Seymour the expression of your sincere sympathy for her under
the great and sudden calamity which has befallen her.

2. Mrs Seymour left British Columbia on the 12th Instant for
England but I have forwarded to her by this Mail the expression
of Your Lordships sympathy.



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No. 31

In obedience to the Royal Instructions I have the honor to
transmit Copy of the Minutes of the proceedings of the Executive
Council of this Colony for the half year ended the 30th June 1869.



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No. 74

I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of Mr. Hankin's
Despatch, No. 2, of the 14th of June and to express my approval of his
having appointed Mr. Charles Good to be Acting Colonial Secretary of
British Columbia during his temporary Administration of the Government
of British Columbia.



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Sargeaunt to Sandford (Assistant Under-Secretary)

I have the honor to apply for Earl Granville's authority for
paying a sum of £400 to the Bishop of Columbia on account of
Female Emigration, as requested by the enclosed letter from the
Colonial Secretary of that Colony.

The Crown Agents have recently received Bills from British
Columbia which when discounted will realize about £5483.0.0,
and propose to make use of that amount in the following manner,
in accordance with the decision contained in Lord Granville's
despatch to the Governor of British Columbia No 23 of 13th
April last:

To repay Crown Agents General account amount advanced
£1200

To repay outstanding interest due 1st & 15th July
250

To pay Trustees of Sinking Fund amounts due 1st
January last
3,250

To pay Bishop of Columbia
400

Balance
383

£5483



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No. 75

I have the honor to transmit to you for your information a copy of
a letter which has been addressed to me by Mr. C.G. Wylly bringing under
consideration his claim to compensation on account of the abolition of
his Office of Assessor of the Colony of Vancouver Island, together with
a copy of the answer which I have caused to be returned to him.



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No. 32

I have the honor to receive, this date, the undermentioned
despatches from Your Lordship;

Originals

Secret 26 June 1869.

Parliamentary 25 June 1869 (two).

Duplicates No. 60 and No. 61, 19 June 1869.

Circulars 10, 17 and 17 June 1869.



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No. 33

I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt this date, of Your
Lordship's despatch forwarding the undermentioned Parliamentary
Papers:

Consuls Commercial Reports

Nos. 1 to 5 of 1869 (2 copies).

Do. in Japan 1869 (2 copies).

Reports of Secretary of Embassy and Legation

Nos. 1, 2, & 3 of 1869 (2 copies).



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No. 34

I have the honor to report the execution at Victoria on the
24th Instant, of an Indian named, Ich-yst-a-tis, for the murder
of a coloured man named William Robinson, on Salt Spring Island,
in this Colony.

2. I enclose copy of the Minutes of the Executive Council on
this subject.



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Sargeaunt to Sandford (Assistant Under-Secretary)

With reference to your letter of the 24th instant, and to a
despatch from the Officer Administering the Government of
British Columbia No 13 of the 21st ultimo, I have the honor to
state, for Earl Granville's information that the Crown Agents
have received in due course the remittances mentioned in the
3rd paragraph of that despatch to the extent of £13150, not £13160.

2. If it had been the custom of the local Government to remit a
sum of £2000 on the 1st of each month, with an extra sum of £1000
in the month of June in each year, and to make due provision for
any other expenditure incurred at its request, the British
Columbia account at this Office would not have been the subject
of so much correspondence.

3. The sum required annually at this Office for interest and
sinking funds on the British Columbia and Vancouver Island loans
is £24,750, and as the year commenced with outstanding claims
amounting to £2125, the sum of £26875 would be sufficient to
meet liabilities in respect to loans during the current year.

4. From Mr Julyan's letter of the 8th and mine of the 21st
Decr last
*

it will be seen that the Colony as against that
liability commenced the year with £4110, which with the amounts
remitted during the six months ending with June last and the
sums promised would show a balance on the 31st December next of
about £3000 in favor of the Colony.

5. Promised remittances are not however very tangible assets,
and the local authorities appear to lose sight altogether of the
fact that money paid away on General account is not still
available; the enclosed statement shows that the payments of
that nature during the current year amount already to £1267.19.8.

6. If then no further payments on General account are required
during this year, and the promised remittances are made, the
Crown Agents' account will on the 1st January next, commence
with a balance of about £2000, but the liabilities for interest
and sinking funds accruing in January next will amount to £8250.

**

7. Under these circumstances I need scarcely add that the
arrangements proposed by the Officer Administering the
Government will not furnish sufficient funds to meet the regular
and incidental liabilities of the Colony.

8. By the proposed arrangement the amount due at this Office in
January next would be remitted from British Columbia in
instalments in that and the three following months, so that the
Colony would not provide the funds due here in January till the
month of May when the April remittance might be expected to
reach this Office.

9. That the financial position of the Government of British
Columbia at this Office is very imperfectly understood by the
local Authorities is only too clear from the despatch I am
now reporting on by Lord Granville's directions, but that it is
so cannot be attributed to the want of explanations furnished
from this Office with peculiar frequency.

10. If the arrangements proposed in my letter of the 22nd
instant meet with Lord Granville's approval,

***

the amounts due to Sinking Funds up to 15th
January last, except £800 due to the Vancouver Island Sinking
Fund, will have been paid and all interest up to date, so that
in addition to the money already remitted and acknowledged the
following amounts ought to be sent in time to be available on
the dates mentioned:

£ 800
due to Trustees of Sinking Fund on 1st Jany last.

1125
 "  "     "     "     "      "   "   1  April   ".

4050
 "  "     "     "     "      "   " 1st & 15th July instant.

4125
interest and sinking fund due 1st Oct next.

8250
    "     "     "      "  due in Jany next.

£18350

11. In place of the promised remittances during the last six
months of this year, amounting to £12,800, the Crown Agents
ought to be furnished with funds available before January next
amounting to £18350.

12. The arrears due to the Sinking Funds at present amount to
£5975; if this debt was cleared off future remittances ought to
be made annually from the Colony to be available at this Office
on the following dates:

On 1st October
£ 4125

   1st & 15 Jany
8250

   1 April
4125

   1 & 15 July
8250

£24750



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No. 76

I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of Mr. Hankin's
despatch No. 17 of the 24th of June forwarding a letter with its
accompanying enclosures addressed to me by Mr. G.W. Cox [W.G. Cox], late Junior
Stipendiary Magistrate British Columbia bringing under my consideration
his claims to the Salary of his late Office for the months of 
June and
July 1868.

In reply I request that you will inform Mr. Cox that I regret that
the claim which he has advanced for two months Salary of his late Office
is not one that it is possible for me to entertain under the
circumstances of the case.



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No. 77

I have to acknowledge the receipt of Mr. Hankin's despatch of the
26th June, No. 22 forwarding a Report from Mr. Trutch the Chief
Commissioner of Lands and Works, who accompanied the late Governor on
his visit to the North West Coast of British Columbia.

Mr. Trutch's Report is very interesting and I must express my
satisfaction both at the prompt manner in which Mr. Seymour started for
Metlakahtla on receiving my despatch of the 7th March last and at his
success in accommodating a quarrel which if left to itself might have
produced very serious results in arresting the course of improvement
among the Indians.



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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.



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No. 35

With reference to my despatch No 25 of 1st July, I have the
honor to enclose the
Accounts and Vouchers relating to Imperial Pensions paid in this
Colony during the half year ended the 30th June, accompanied by
a letter from the Auditor General explaining the cause of the
delay in preparing these Returns.



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No. 36

With the unanimous advice and consent of the Executive Council I
have caused the expenses connected with the Funeral of the late
Governor Seymour to be defrayed at the cost of the Public. The
Royal Naval Cemetry was the place chosen for the interment.
Representatives from all classes of the community from all parts
of the Colony attended, and every mark of respect was paid to
the Remains of Her Majesty's late Representative.

2. The Gazette Extraordinary which accompanied my despatch No
6 of 17th June, will have informed Your Lordship as to the
arrangements for the Funeral. They were carried out under my
personal supervision, with the assistance of Captain Edye, RN,
of Her Majesty's Ship "Satellite," the Senior Naval Officer on
this Station, and I would take this opportunity to acknowledge
the valuable aid afforded to me by that Officer on the occasion.

3. Governor Seymour having died in Office, I have the honor to
inquire if Your Lordship will cause this Colony to be
re-imbursed the expenses of the Funeral from Imperial Funds.



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No. 37

With reference to the late Governor Seymour's despatch No 87 of
11th May, I have the honor to report that the two Indians
accused of the Murder of part of the Crew of the "John Bright"
were tried at the last Assizes held in Victoria. They were
found guilty and condemned to death.

2. Concurring in the opinion of the Executive Council, I deemed
it advisable that these Indians should be executed at the place
where their crime was committed, feeling assured that the
example would have a salutary effect in deterring others from
the commission of a like offence.

3. H.M.S. "Sparrowhawk," Captain Mist, having been placed at my
disposal for the purpose by the Senior Naval Officer, proceeded
to Hesquiot Harbour the scene of the Murders, where, on the
29th July, in the presence of the whole tribe, the two Indians suffered the extreme penalty of the Law.

4. I enclose copy of the Minutes of the Executive Council on
this subject.



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Lushington to Rogers (Permanent Under-Secretary)

I am commanded by my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to
transmit for the information of Earl Granville copies of
correspondence forwarded by Rear Admiral Honble G.F.
Hastings, in his letter of 29 June No 110, relative to the
investigation which had taken place in conjunction with the
Commanding officer of H.M. Ship Sparrowhawk into certain
outrages alleged to have been committed by the Indians on the
Crew of the Barque "John Bright" wrecked in the vicinity of
Nootka Sound, North Pacific.



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No. 78

I referred to the Crown Agents, for any observations which they
might have to offer, Mr. Hankin's Despatch No. 13, of the 21st of June
reporting the steps which have been taken by the Colonial Government
during the first half of the present Year to meet the liabilities of the
Colony in this Country on account of the interest and Sinking fund of
the British Columbia and Vancouver loans.

I now transmit to you a copy of the report which they have
addressed to me on the subject which will show you that the remittances
contemplated by Mr. Hankin will not be sufficient to meet the liabilities
of the government of British Columbia as they fall due.

You will also see from the concluding paragraph of their letter the
times at which remittances ought to be made on this account.



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Foster to Granville

I beg most respectfully to thank your Lordship for the favorable
answer you have been pleased to enclose in your Dispatch of the
19th April last to the late Governor Seymour, with reference to
His Excellency's kind recommendation on my behalf

*

for future employment in the Colonial Service.



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No. 79

I transmit to you, for your information, a copy of a letter from
the Crown Agents applying for authority for paying the Bishop of British
Columbia a sum of £400 for Female Emigration to that colony, together
with a copy of the answer made to the Agents by my desire.



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Herbert to Under-Secretary of State

With reference to your letter of 25th May transmitting for the
consideration of this Board copy of an Ordinance of British
Columbia to entitle exporters of Goods to certain Drawbacks, and
also to the question of allowing Vessels clearing on short
voyages to have their stores duty free, I am directed by the
Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade to transmit to
you to be laid before Earl Granville the inclosed copy of a
Report which they have obtained from the Commissioners of
Customs on the subject and to state that My Lords concur in the
opinion of the Commissioners of Customs.



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No. 80

I transmit to you, for your information copies of a correspondence
which has passed between Mr. W. Fisher who states that he is a delegate
on behalf of the Municipal Council of New Westminster enclosed in
Governor Seymour's Despatch No. 127 of the 30th of November last,
praying for compensation for losses sustained by them in consequence of
the removal of the seat of Government in British Columbia from New
Westminster to Victoria.



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No. 81

I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of Mr. Hankin's
Despatch No. 26 of the 3rd of July and to inform you that as Mr. J.W.
Trutch has divested himself of all pecuniary interest or connection in
Tolls of the Alexandra Bridge I have much pleasure in confirming him in
the appointment of Chief Commissioner of Lands and Works in British
Columbia.



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No. 38

I have had the honor to receive, this date, the undermentioned
Despatches from Your Lordship:

Originals No. 62, 26 June, and No. 63, 28 June 1869.

Circulars 26 and 28 June 1869.

Duplicates

Secret 26 June 1869.



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No. 39

I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt, this date, of Your
Lordship's despatch forwarding the undermentioned Parliamentary
Papers:
Prison Discipline in the Colonies, July 1868, 4 copies.



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Council to Colonial Office

Approval of Draft Commn &

Instructions for Governor Musgrave

‹‹ —————————

‹‹‹(Missing)

Marked in Register Chief Clerk



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No. 82

I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of Governor Seymour's
Despatches Nos. 58 and 60 of the 24th of March and 3rd of April, the
first forwarding a Petition addressed to the Queen by the Legislative
Council of British Columbia praying Her Majesty to remove the present
unsatisfactory condition of the Courts of Justice in British Columbia,
and the 2nd transmitting an Ordinance No. 8 of 1869, "to regulate the
Supreme Courts of Justice of British Columbia."

In reply I have to convey to you Her Majesty's gracious
confirmation and allowance of the Ordinance No. 8, of 1869, and I have
to request you to inform the Legislative Council that their Petition has
been laid before the Queen and that Her Majesty has been pleased to
receive it very graciously.

I have however to observe that if the Ordinance No. 8 of 1869, is
likely to cause some of the inconveniences apprehended by the Legislative
Council it is unfortunate that the Council did not act upon the
invitation made by the Duke of Buckingham in his despatch of the 26th of
June 1868, No. 40 and modify the draft Ordinance sent from this Country
so as to remove or mitigate these inconveniences.



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No. 83

I have the honor to transmit to you a copy of a Despatch which I
have addressed to the Officer Administering the Government of
Newfoundland, in acknowledgment of the Addresses which were presented to
you by the Executive Council of that Island, and by Deputations from the
Residents of St. Johns and Harbor Grace on your relinquishing the
Government of the Colony.



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No. 40

I have had the honor to receive, this date, the undermentioned
despatches from Your Lordship:

Originals No. 64, 5 July, and No. 69, 9 July 1869.

Duplicates No. 62, 26 June, and No. 63, 28 June 1869.

Circulars 26 and 28 June 1869.



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No. 41

I have the honor to report the arrival in Esquimalt Harbour, on
the 8th Instant, of the American Frigate "Pensacola," bearing
the Flag of Rear Admiral Thomas Turner. The Admiral called on
me the day after his arrival, and he left Esquimalt yesterday to
visit the Ports on Puget Sound.

2. I understood from Admiral Turner that the "Pensacola" would
return here for a few days previous to her departure for San
Francisco.



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No. 42

I have had the honor to receive, this date, the undermentioned
despatches from Your Lordship:

Originals No. 70, 15 July, to No. 72, 17 July 1869.

Parliamentary 14 and 15 July 1869.

Circulars 12, 13, 14 and 15 July 1869.

Duplicates No. 64, 5 July, to No. 69, 9 July 1869.



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No. 43

I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt, this date, of Your
Lordship's despatch forwarding the undermentioned Parliamentary
Papers:

1st Report of the Judicature Commission, 4 copies.

29th Report of the Emigration Commissioners, 4 copies.



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No. 84

1. In my despatch of 17th of June, in which I communicated to you
your appointment to the Government of British Columbia, I informed you
"that I should probably have occasion to address you on the question
then in agitation of the Incorporation of that Colony with the Dominion
of Canada."

2. You are aware that Her Majesty's Government have hitherto
declined to entertain this question, mainly because it could not arise
practically till the Territory of the Hudson's Bay Company was annexed
to the Dominion, but also, perhaps, in the expectation that the public
opinion of British Columbia might have opportunity to form and declare
itself.

3. I have now to inform you that the terms on which Rupert's Land
and the North West Territory are to be united to Canada, have been
agreed to by the parties concerned, and that the Queen will probably be
advised before long to issue an Order in Council which will incorporate
in the Dominion of Canada the whole of the British Possessions on the
North American Continent, except the then conterminous Colony of
British Columbia.

4. The question therefore presents itself, whether this single
Colony should be excluded from the great body politic which is thus
forming itself.

5. On this question the Colony itself does not appear to be
unanimous. But as far as I can judge from the Despatches which have
reached me, I should conjecture that the prevailing opinion was in favor
of union. I have no hesitation in stating that such is, also, the
opinion of Her Majesty's Government.

6. They believe that a Legislature selected from an extended area,
and representing a diversity of interests, is likely to deal more
comprehensively with large questions, more impartially with small questions, and more conclusively with both than is possible when controversies are
carried on and decided upon in the comparatively narrow circle in which
they arise. Questions of purely local interest will be more carefully
and more dispassionately considered when disengaged from the larger
politics of the country, and at the same time will be more sagaciously
considered by persons who have had this larger political education.

7. Finally why anticipate that the interests of every province of
British North America will be more advanced by enabling the wealth,
credit and intelligence of the whole to be brought to bear on every
part, than by encouraging each in the contracted policy of taking care
of itself, possibly at the expense of its neighbour.

8. Most especially is this true in the case of internal transit.
It is evident that the establishment of a British line of communication
between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, is far more feasible by the
operation of a single Government responsible for the progress of both
shores of the Continent than by a bargain negociated between separate,
perhaps in some respects rival, Governments and Legislatures. The San
Francisco of B.N.A. would under these circumstances hold a greater
commercial and political position than would be attainable by the
Capital of the isolated Colony of British Columbia.

9. Her Majesty's Government are aware that the distance between
Ottawa and Victoria presents a real difficulty in the way of immediate
union. But that very difficulty will not be without its advantages it
if renders easy communication indispensable and forces onwards the
operations which are to complete it. In any case it is an understood
inconvenience and a diminishing one, & it appears far better to accept
it as a temporary drawback on the advantages of union than to wait for
those obstacles, often more intractable, which are sure to spring up
after a neglected opportunity.

10. The constitutional connection of Her Majesty's Government with
the Colony of British Columbia is as yet closer than which any other
part of North America, and they are bound on an occasion like the
present to give, for the consideration of the community and the guidance
of Her Majesty's Servants, a more unreserved expression of their wishes
and judgment than might be elsewhere fitting.

11. You will, therefore, give publicity to this despatch, a copy
of which I have communicated to the Governor-General of Canada, and you
will hold yourself authorised, either with communication with Sir John
Young, or otherwise, to take such steps as you properly and
constitutionally can, for promoting the favourable consideration of this
question.

12. It will not escape you, that in acquainting you with the
general views of the Government, I have avoided all matters of detail on
which the wishes of the people and the Legislature will of course be
declared in due time. I think it necessary, however, to observe that
the constitution of British Columbia will oblige the Governor to enter
personally upon many question, as the condition of Indian Tribes, and
the future position of Government servants, with which, in the case of a
negociation between two Responsible Governments he would not be bound to
concern himself.



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No. 85

I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of Governor Seymour's
Despatches Nos. 43 and 56 of the 19th and 24th March, the first
forwarding a Resolution passed by the Legislative Council of British
Columbia requesting the Governor to order that a voyage to any Foreign
Port shall be considered of not less than 40 days duration, and that
Vessels of 50 tons burthen and upwards, bound Foreign shall be allowed
to have their stores Duty Free, and the second submitting a Bill passed
at the late Session of the Legislature entitled "An Ordinance to entitle
Exporters of Goods to certain Drawbacks and for other purposes."

In reply I transmit to you for your information copies of a letter
from the Board of Trade and of its enclosures from the Commissioners of
Customs to whom Mr. Seymour's Despatches and their enclosures were
referred.

I concur in the views expressed by the Commissioners of Customs and
I have to instruct you to lay a copy of their report before the Colonial
Legislature, at their next Session, who will, I have no doubt, with the
help of the additional information now furnished, carefully reconsider
the several important questions discussed by the Commissioners of Customs
in their Report.

Meantime I am unable to authorise you to give assent to the Bill
transmitted with Mr. Seymour's Despatch of the 24th of March.



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No. 86

I have to acknowledge the despatch from the Officer Administering
the Government No. 21 of the 24th June last, submitting the British
Columbia Estimates of Revenue and Expenditure for the current year.

2. I have to draw your serious attention to the total disregard of
instructions which has occurred in connection with these Estimates. In
the Duke of Buckingham's despatch No. 105 dated the 7th December 1868,
acknowledging the Appropriation Ordinance and Estimates for that year,
Governor Seymour, received for his guidance, and for adoption so far as
applicable to British Columbia, a copy of a despatch to the Governor of
the Straits Settlements prescribing rules and forms of statement, to be
followed in the case of that Colony, in the submission of the annual
Estimates and Appropriation Ordinances and Blue book returns. Governor
Seymour replied, in his despatch No. 32 dated the 9th March last, that
the instructions enclosed to him "were not applicable to British
Columbia." He gave but little explanation of his reasons for this
opinion, but, as expressed, it extended to the whole of the instructions
and accordingly they appear to have been entirely laid aside. In the
Governor's despatch No. 45 dated the 19th March, the Appropriation
Ordinance for 1869 was submitted without the Estimates and now that
these have been received in the present despatch dated the 24th June,
they are found to be unaccompanied by any statement of Assets and
Liabilities, or any other of the financial returns required by the Duke
of Buckingham's instructions.

3. I have therefore to instruct you in the first place not to
separate in future the Appropriation Ordinances and the Estimates on
which they are founded, and secondly, I have to repeat the instructions
given to your Government by the Duke of Buckingham, to be guided by the
rules prescribed in the despatch to the Straits Colony, so far as
applicable to British Columbia. I for the present leave yourself to
decide, for the purpose of preparing the Estimates and Appropriation
Ordinance for 1870, what precise portions of the instructions referred
to should be adopted or not adopted, by your Government, but I request
that you will report fully and distinctly your reasons for considering
inapplicable or postponing whatever portion is not adopted. The most
essential accompaniments of the Estimates and Ordinances will
unquestionably be the returns or Estimates of Assets and Liabilities for
the beginning and ending of years. These will be indispensable. It is
also essential to the due supervision of the Colonial Finances by Her
Majesty's Government, whose duty it is to exercise such supervision very
fully, so long as the present Crown system of Administration continues,
that the Annual Appropriation Ordinances should be passed, and Estimates
and accompanying information despatched at a much earlier date than has
been done in the case of the Ordinance and Estimates for the present
year. I am aware of no reason why the date for despatch prescribed in
the case of the Straits Colony, viz, before the end of the year
preceding that of Estimates, should not be considered applicable to
British Columbia. With respect to the remainder of the Duke of
Buckingham's instructions, I shall be prepared to sanction modification
or postponement, so far as required by the circumstances of the Colony,
but I rely on your carrying out the Instructions as far as circumstances
may permit. You will bear in mind that a proper framework of financial
statements is quite as essential for the information of yourself and the
Colonial Legislature and community as for that of Her Majesty's
Government.

4. I annex a corrected copy of the instructions to the Straits
Colony referred to, a slight error having been found at page 3 in the
copy before sent.



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Confidential

I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of Mr. Hankin's
Despatch, Confidential, of the 12th of July on the subject of the visit
of George Francis Train to Victoria, Vancouver Island.



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Law to Sandford (Assistant Under-Secretary)

I am directed by the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's
Treasury to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 13th
Instant, & its enclosures, respecting the case of Mr Young the
Acting Colonial Secretary at British Columbia.

I am to state for the information of Lord Granville that My
Lords have no objection to make to the proposal to sanction the
payment from the Colonial Treasury of the Passage money to this
Country of Mr Young & of his wife & children; but before taking
into consideration whether any gratuity should be granted to Mr
 Young in respect of the offices which he has held in Vancouver

& British Columbia, My Lords would be glad to be informed of the
circumstances which led to his being superseded after he had, as
stated in his letter of June 5 to Governor Seymour, been
appointed to the Office of Colonial Secretary to the United
Colony, & filled it apparently to the satisfaction of the Governor.

My Lords would also be glad to be informed whether Mr Young
held any appointment under the Colonial Office previous to that
of Colonial Secretary at Vancouver.



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No. 2

I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt, this day, of
your despatch of 22nd July, forwarding the undermentioned Papers:
Railway Accidents, Part 2, 1869, 2 copies.



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Confidential

Her Majesty's Government desire to be prepared for any opportunity
that may offer for opening negotiations for a Treaty respecting the
Commerce between the "British North American Possessions and the United
States, and with this view they would wish to receive from you
Confidentially such a Statement as you any think best for securing that
the interests of British Columbia meet with just consideration.

I request that you will communicate to the Governor of Canada who
has been authorised to enter into direct communication with you on the
subject, any statement which you may forward to me in consequence of
this Despatch.



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Lushington to Rogers (Permanent Under-Secretary)

I am commanded by my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to
acquaint you, for the information of Earl Granville, that Mr
Cowrie, Surgeon of H.M.S. "Sparrowhawk" has reported that His
Excellency Frederick Seymour, Governor of British Columbia, died
on board that ship on the 12 June 1869, at Bella Coola, British
Columbia, of Typhoid Asthenia.



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Confidential

With reference to my Confidential Despatch of 24th Inst. I transmit
to you Confidentially a Copy of a Despatch from the Governor of Canada
enclosing a Report of the Conference which took place at Washington
between Mr. Rose the Finance Minister of the Dominion, Mr. Thornton and
Mr. Fish on the part of the United States Government.

As Canada has in its Fisheries and Inland Navigation a valuable
equivalent to offer to the United States for any Commercial concessions,
which is not to the same extent the case with British Columbia, the
latter Colony would be materially benefitted by being treated as part
of Canada in respect of the negotiations on the subject.

This consideration may be usefully placed before the People of
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Hamilton to Under-Secretary of State

I am directed by the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's
Treasury to state, for the information of Lord Granville, that
My Lords have no objection to make to the Estimates and
Appropriation Ordinance of the Colony of British Columbia for
1869, as submitted in your Letter of the 9th August.



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No. 1

I reported to Your Lordship by Telegraph on the 23rd instant
that I had arrived here and assumed the government. I added the
words "all well" as the condition of the Colony is tranquil. As
yet I have little to say beyond that report. But Your Lordship
will be glad to learn that any fear of Fenian raids and such
disturbances seems not to have had much real foundation. The
information which I gathered in San Fransisco and since my
arrival here seems to show that whatever may be their feeling on
Irish Grievances the Irish in California had no desire to accept
Mr Train as a leader, nor did he seriously contemplate any
mischievous attempt at disturbance of the peace.

2. Excepting some local matters which I hope may be adjusted
without serious difficulty, the chief topic of interest at this
time appears to be the question of Confederation. It is
necessarily impossible for me, however, in two days to have
acquired sufficient information upon its aspects in this
Community to justify me in expressing an opinion upon it to Your
Lordship and I shall defer my remarks with regard to this subject.

3. I enclose for Your Lordship's information copies of an
Address which I have to-day received from the Mayor and Town
Council of Victoria, and the reply which I made on the occasion.



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No. 3

I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt, this day, of your
despatches of the numbers and dates noted in the Margin.

*



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No. 87

I received on the 26th Instant a Telegraphic Despatch from you in
the following words: "Arrived and assumed Government. All Well.
Victoria, August 23rd."



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Confidential

I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of Mr. Hankin's
Despatch, Confidential of the 19th of July, furnishing information in
reply to my Despatch Confidential, of the 2nd of June enquiring to what
extent the majority of the Legislative Council of British Columbia which
in its last session passed the Resolution against Confederation with
Canada was composed of Public Officers.

My Despatch No. 84 of the 14th of August will already have made you
aware of the views of Her Majesty's Government on the very important
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Seymour (Mrs.) to Granville

I have to thank Your Lordship very gratefully for your kind
expressions of sympathy with me in the terrible affliction, with
which I have been visited, and at the same time to tell Your
Lordship how truly gratified I was to see the very flattering
terms, in which you have spoken of the services rendered by my
dear husband to the Colony of British Columbia, of which he was
in charge up to the time of his most deeply deplored death.

May I venture to address Your Lordship on a subject of much
importance to me and to ask Your Lordship to kindly interest
yourself in my behalf in furtherance of some claim I think I
may have on Her Majesty's Government for a sum of £500, to
defray the expenses of my journey home from the Colony. More
particularly as I have reason for believing that had my dear
husband been spared to accompany me home, at the expiration of
his term of office he would have been entitled to the sum of
£800 in defrayment of his passage to this Country.

Hoping that Your Lordship will take my request into your
favourable consideration.



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No. 88

I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of Mr. Hankin's
Despatch No. 21 of the 24th of June, and to sanction the British
Columbia Estimates of Revenue and Expenditure for the year 1869.

I have also to convey to you Her Majesty's gracious confirmation
and Allowance of the British Columbia Appropriation Ordinance No. 3 of
1869, a copy of which was forwarded to me with Mr. Seymour's Despatch No.
45 of the 19th of March, and which is entitled

An Ordinance to appropriate the sum of Four hundred and nineteen
thousand three hundred and thirty five Dollars and Fifty Cents out of
the general Revenue of the Colony, for the Contingent Service of the
year 1869.

My Despatch No. 86 of the 18th Instant will have acquainted you
with the form in which the British Columbia Estimates are for the future
to be sent home.



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Lushington to Rogers (Permanent Under-Secretary)

I am commanded by my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to
transmit for the information of Earl Granville extracts from a
Letter of Rear Admiral Honble G.F. Hastings, dated Callao
27 July, reporting the death of His Excellency Governor Seymour
on board H.M.S. Sparrowhawk, during the passage to the Northern
Settlements of British Columbia.

2. The Real Admiral also mentions that some excitement
prevailed in the Colony, owing to the threats of a Fenian
Invasion, uttered at a public meeting by Mr George Train, to
which however H.M. Consul at San Francisco attached little importance.



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Bishop of Columbia to Sandford (Assistant Under-Secretary)

The Legislative Council of British Columbia, towards the end of
their last Session, voted 700£ for bringing to the Colony Female
Servants. The late Governor at their request appointed an
Immigration Board wishing me to act as Chairman & to further the
objects in England. The Board met & drew up regular terms, and
the Colonial Government remitted 400£ to the Crown Agents. I
enclose a Copy of a Report of a Select Committee of the
Legislative Council which was placed in my hands by Governor
Seymour & by which the Board has been guided.

I have to ask Her M. Government to authorize the Crown Agents to pay
over the 400£ when required, as a ship is likely to sail in
October, and it is important to secure the best season for
passing Cape Horn. We are at present unable to do anything, and
delay will cause disappointment in the Colony where the subject
was taken up with great unanimity.



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Hamilton to Under-Secretary of State

I am directed by the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's
Treasury to state, for the information of Lord Granville, that,
under the circumstances stated in your Letter of the 26 August,
it appears to My Lords that the question of a Gratuity to Mr
Young, late Colonial Secretary in British Columbia, cannot for
the present at least be entertained.



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No. 4

In Your Lordship's Despatch Newfoundland No 13 of the 17th June,

*

acquainting me with my appointment as Governor of this
Colony it was stated that the Salary is at present £4,000 a
year, and £1,000 for travelling expenses, but that the amount of
this Salary was a matter of complaint in the Colony and you
would not be prepared to reject any application that it should
be reduced to £3,000 a year together with the Governor's actual
travelling expenses not exceeding £1,000.

2. On my arrival here I have ascertained that my predecessor
Mr Seymour received (£5,000) Five Thousand Pounds per annum,
besides his travelling expenses, of which the actual amount only
was drawn; for in addition to the amount of £4,000 under Act of
the local Legislature he drew the sum of £1,000 a year from the
Crown fund which has never been transferred to the control of
the local Legislature.

3. I find that Mr Seymour considered himself authorised to
draw this amount by some sanction given by Lord Carnarvon,
mentioned in Mr Seymour's Despatch Separate of the 17th April
1867, but of which I see no other record.
I do not, however, regard myself as entitled to do the same
without reference to Your Lordship,

**

though I should not have troubled you now upon the subject,
except that Mr Hankin the Colonial Secretary is in doubt
whether he may be paid the half of the allowance from the Crown
fund at the rate of £1,000 per annum for the period during
which he administered the government between the dates of Mr
Seymour's death and my arrival. Mr Hankin was presumably
entitled to half of the emoluments of the Officer whom he
succeeded for a time,

***

and I would recommend that he at all
events should be allowed this amount, as it will not add to the
expenses of the Colony. As regards my own case, I believe from
what I learn that no objection would be taken by the Community
to my receiving the same amount of official emolument that Mr
Seymour drew, as I shall probably be the last Governor of the
Colony under the existing establishment, for I think there is
reason for anticipating that at no distant period arrangements
may be made for uniting British Columbia with the Dominion. And
I would ask for Your Lordship's favorable consideration, upon
the ground that I find the expenses of living in this Colony are
so much greater than they are in Newfoundland that in fact
£4,000 is scarcely equal to more than half that amount in my
former residence. Servants wages are more than double—for
Female Servants three times—the rates in Newfoundland or
Halifax; there is some difficulty in procuring Housemaids even
at Fifty Pounds Sterling and their board; while almost all other
prices and expenses are from fifty to one hundred per cent
greater than in the Eastern Provinces, and I have not the
advantage of allowances such as for Light and Fuel which was
enjoyed at Newfoundland.

5. But, if Your Lordship should regard a reduction of the
Salary as necessary on any application which might be made, I
would respectfully submit that to reduce it to £4,000, of which
£1,000 might as heretofore be paid from the Crown fund, would be
as great a reduction as could be effected without placing me at
a serious disadvantage compared with the position occupied by my
predecessor, or my own in my former Government.



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No. 5

I have the honor to forward to Your Lordship Copies of some
Addresses which have been presented to me on my assuming the
Government and of my replies on these occasions.



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No. 6

I have the honor to transmit Returns relating to the Revenue and
Expenditure of the Colony during the Quarter ended the 31st of
December 1868.



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No. 8

I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of Your Lordship's
despatches of the number and dates noted in the margin.

*



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No. 7

It is obviously desirable that I should acquaint myself as soon
as possible with the character of the chief settlements in the
Colony, and this is most effectively done by personal visits.
As the winter is drawing on, I should not be able to reach
Cariboo, which is the most distant and most important, before
the bad weather sets in, unless I proceed at once. And I do not
like to postpone my visit for so many months as I must otherwise
be compelled to do, though I confess I should not have been
unwilling to rest here for some weeks after my long journey of
nearly 5,000 miles by the Pacific Railroad and by sea from
Newfoundland. I intend therefore, having now enquired to some
extent into the general business of the Colony, to leave Victoria
on Tuesday next for a tour through New Westminster and the chief
settlements to Cariboo. I shall be absent from the seat of
Government about a month; but I can at most places be
communicated with by Telegraph from Victoria. I shall have
opportunities during my tour for collecting information on the
state of feeling with regard to Confederation and other matters,
which will be very useful to me during the Legislative Session,
and on my return I shall be better able to report to Your
Lordship the fruit of my observation on any public questions.



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No. 89

I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of Mr. Hankin's
Despatch No. 34 of the 27th July, reporting the execution for murder of
an Indian named Ich-yst-a-tis.

I have also received Mr. Seymour's Despatch No. 87 of the 11th May,
on the subject of the wreck of the Barque "John Bright."



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No. 90

With reference to my Despatch No. 79 of the 5th August, I transmit
to you a copy of a letter from the Bishop of British Columbia requesting
that the Crown Agents may be authorized to issue to him £400 on account
of the £700 which His Lordship states has been voted by the Government of
British Columbia towards female Emigration to the Colony.

There is sufficient evidence in the Report enclosed by the Bishop
to warrant me in allowing the Crown Agents to comply with his request,
and at the same time to give effect to the wishes of your Government as
expressed in the Acting Colonial Secretary's letter of the 21st June.

I have accordingly issued the necessary instructions, but I have to
observe that both delay and correspondence would have been saved if the
matter had been properly reported to this Department.



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Fisher to Granville

With reference to the interview I had the honour of having with
your Lordship together with a deputation of certain Members of
Parliament regarding the affairs of British Columbia, and more
particularly the question of the removal of the seat of
Government from New Westminster to Victoria Vancouvers Island, I
have now much pleasure in placing before your Lordship, as
requested, a full statement of our case feeling fully confident
that the same will meet with every consideration at your hands
and at the same time assist in enabling you to arrive at a just
decision as to the merits of our Petition now before you.

In the first place I have the honor to acknowledge receipt of a
letter from Mr Monsell dated 4th August, enclosing, according
 to your Lordships instructions copy of a dispatch dated
16th February 1869 to our late Governor Frederick Seymour
regarding the prayer of a certain Petition presented to your
Lordship by the Municipal Council of New Westminster whom I have
the honor to represent.

I would most respectfully draw your Lordships attention to the
same in reconsidering our case and would mention the following facts.

That after the site of the capital had been selected by Lieut:
Colonel Moody of the Royal Engineers, Lieut: Governor
and Chief Commissioner of Lands and Works of the Colony
of British Columbia, and the said selection endorsed by His
Excellency Sir James Douglas the then Governor of the
Colony and approved of by Her Majesty's in council, certain
advertizements were inserted in the Government Gazette and
elsewhere together with the Royal Proclamation declaring that New
Westminster was the capital of the Colony and that Her Majesty
had been pleased to bestow a name upon the then embrayo [sic] City.

These advertisements set forth that a public auction would take
place upon a certain day by the Government of the lots in the
said City & called attention to the fact of New Westminster
having been established by law and royal proclamation the
Capital of the Colony, as an inducement to intending purchasers
to invest at the said sale.

Trusting implicitly in these statements so publicly made by the
authority of the Government of a Crown Colony a large number of
Colonists attended the Sale, and as will be shewn the lots then
purchased brought extraordinary high prices when compared with
the then market value of Crown lands generally.

As we have previously set forth the whole of the purchase
money some $90,000 was absorbed in the general revenue of the
Colony. Now we are prepared to prove upon most reliable
evidence and I would mention to your Lordship the name of
General Moody RE now in England, that at the time of Sale, and
before a single lot was sold, the question was publicly
and directly put by several intending purchasers to the
Government Agent who offered the said lots for sale "if New
Westminster was established as the Capital of the Colony?" The
Answer given was that such was the case, and attention moreover
called by the said Agent to the Royal Proclamation establishing
the fact.

I would further represent that the question was also asked "How
the Government intended to appropriate the proceeds of the
Sale?" The answer to this important question which we are
prepared to prove by most reliable evidence should a Commission
of enquiry be granted, was that the Government would devote the
whole proceeds to the making of roads and bridges and the
improving of Streets within the town. I may mention that at
that time the whole town site was a dense forrest and the said
roads and streets merely existed upon the plan made by the
Government and according to which the lots were sold.

Upon these assurances the sale proceeded and having full
confidence in the representations made by the Government, the
lots not only brought high prices but were mainly purchased not
by Speculators but by those who looked forward to making for
themselves and family a permanent home.

After the purchase money had been paid over to the Government
the people naturally looked to them for the fulfillment of their
pledge as regards roads, streets and bridges, but while the
obligation was not denied on the part of the Government, the
required work was not performed nor was any money devoted for
the purpose.

Being anxious for colonial as also personal interests, to make
the town worthy of the name of the Capital of British Columbia,
the Colonists who purchased lots applied for, and obtained a
Municipal Constitution establishing a Council and investing it
with certain powers to levy taxes upon City property to perform
the work which the Government had distinctly promised as a
condition of Sale should be done out of the purchase money.

This Council during the eight years of its existence raised and
expended the sum of Forty four thousand five hundred dollars,
say $44,500, from taxes and borrowed Thirteen thousand three
hundred and eighty six dollars ($13,386) making a total of say
Fifty seven thousand eight hundred and eighty six dollars, say
$57,886. The whole of this sum was expended in making streets,
roads and bridges in the town site and entirely independent of
private enterprise which would make the sum actually expended
considerably over One Million dollars. The energy and
enterprise of the inhabitants in clearing the forrest, erecting
handsome buildings, many of which are of stone, and generally
overcoming the wild obstructions of nature have been set forth
in several dispatches by the late Governor Frederick Seymour to
the Colonial Office, and I may mention that acting upon these
substantial signs of progress and also the fact of New
Westminster being established by the Government as the Capital,
induced many Colonists to take up and purchase land in the
immediate neighbourhood and establish themselves as farmers,
investing large sums and a great amount of labour and energy in
developing the same.

At the time of New Westminster being proclaimed the Capital of
the Colony, Vancouvers Island was part of the same Colony but a
few years afterwards was for imperial and local reasons
disunited and a Governor sent from Downing Street to each of the
then distinct Colonies.

In 1865 an agitation set in on Vancouvers Island to unite again
with British Columbia under one Government on the grounds of
retrenchment in the public service. This agitation and proposed
union was opposed by British Columbia, not only through its
legislative Council, who passed repeatedly resolutions setting
forth that they believed such union would be detrimental to the
interests of the Colony, but also by Governor Seymour to whose
despatches on the subject I would refer your Lordship.

Notwithstanding such Union was approved of by the Imperial
Government on the ground of reducing the expenditure of the two
Colonies as distinct Governments and your Lordship will notice
by the resolution of the Vancouvers Island Legislature passed at
the time, such Union was asked for and granted as an
"unconditional union."

The Colonies were united under the title of British Columbia and
the late Fredk Seymour entrusted with their Government.

Soon after this "unconditional union" certain parties interested
in real estate at Victoria Vancouvers Island commenced an
agitation for the removal of the Capital from New Westminster to
their City and while the same was popular as far as the Island
was concerned and amongst those located at Victoria and in its
immediate neighbourhood it received no favor at the hands of the
resident population of the Mainland (British Columbia proper).

I would merely ask your Lordship to refer to dispatches now in
your office from the late Governor Frederick Seymour on the
subject of this agitation and also his public statement
contained in his speech from the vice royal throne in opening
the Legislative Council wherein he states that in his opinion
"public faith and honour are surely pledged in favour of New
Westminster" and furthermore says that "Should the matter be
pressed before his consideration he would advise Her Majesty's
Government to command him and his Successors in Office to reside
permanently at New Westminster."

After such Statements from the Governor of the Colony made as
the representative of her Majesty, and in the most public manner
and having full confidence in the good faith of the Government
and justice of our cause, the residents of New Westminster and
Colonists settled on the Mainland generally, deemed it
unnecessary and inadvisable to create a counter agitation on the
subject as they rightly believed such agitation would be hurtful
to the general interest and well being of the Colony.

In proof of this I would state that not even a petition, which
in a Colony with a large mining and foreign floating population
is an easy matter to procure, was presented to your Lordship's
predecessor in Office against the removal of the Capital which I
humbly consider was a sure sign of the confidence we had as a
community, deeply interested in the honor and integrity of the
Government, endorsed and upheld by their representative.

Failing in attaining their object or creating that amount of
sympathy to further their ends in the Colony itself, means were
adopted by the Agitators to bring forward certain Petitions
from those interested in real estate at Victoria but resident in
London, and in a despatch dated Downing Street, October 1/67 to
Governor Seymour the said Petitions were forwarded by his Grace
the Duke of Buckingham and Chandos with permission to quote the
authority of the Home Government in support of the removal of
the Capital to Victoria.

I refer your Lordship to these said petitions and also the
answer of the late Governor dated New Westminster December
24/67, to the above mentioned despatch in which he speaks of
"the easy but lengthy task of commenting on the statements
contained in the printed Memorials" which comments or expression
of opinion were not even asked for by his Grace the Duke of
Buckingham and Chandos.

These petitions from residents in London were set forth as the
opinions and wishes of the whole Colony, and the result of the
same, and also the before mentioned despatch, was that in
opening the Legislative Council for the Session of 1868 His
Excellency the late Governor Frederick Seymour stated that "Her
Majesty's Government were of opinion that in my message of the
27th March 1867, I took an extreme view as to the extent to
which public faith and honour are pledged to the Purchasers of
land in New Westminster."

The result of this, and without an appeal to the Colonists at
the polls, or the question being brought before the Country,
the site of the Capital was removed from New Westminster to
Victoria by a Legislative Council not having full
representative powers and composed of Gentlemen nearly all
interested in real Estate at Victoria.

I would state that the result of this removal has been ruin and
disaster to many a home, the labour and persevering energy of
the inhabitants of New Westminster and also the farmers in the
immediate neighbourhood who look to that City for their market,
has by this removal been rendered comparatively worthless at a
time when they were beginning to look forward to reap the
benefits likely to accrue for the location of the seat of Government.

Furthermore the Municipal Council of New Westminster did in the
year 1862 with the consent and concurrence of the Government
issue Debentures secured from the Municipal Revenues of the
City, to the amount of Thirteen thousand three hundred and
eighty six dollars ($13,386) which Debentures will shortly fall
due. By taking away the seat of Government the city property
has been deprived of that value which alone constituted the
basis of investment and thereby removed those conditions which
called for and imparted practical effect to the exercise of
municipal functions.

Through the Government failing to perform their part of the
Contract in improving and making streets and roads this money
required had to be borrowed by the Municipal Council and the
interest paid by general taxation on the City property.

Through the act of the Government that property purchased from
them and the proceeds of which purchase they have received, has
depreciated so much in value by the unexpected and unlooked for
removal of the Capital, that real estate has become nearly
worthless as taxation to pay even the interest upon this amount
is rendered impossible and the Municipality unjustly deprived
of the means to fulfil its pledges to their fellow Colonists.

On behalf of the Municipal Council which is the only
representative body on the mainland, I am prepared to prove
should your Lordship be pleased favorably to consider the
appointment of a Commission of enquiry into the matter:

THAT the removal of the Capital from New Westminster was against
the wish of the majority of the Colonists of British Columbia.

THAT for imperial and Colonial reasons such removal from the
centre of population and the producing part of the Colony to a
town on an outlying Island was inadvisable.

THAT Victoria owing to its Geographical position is unsuited as
the Capital of a future important Colony like British Columbia
and ALSO that the pledges which I have before mentioned were
most distinctly and publicly given.

Your Lordship in your despatch to his Excellency the late F.
Seymour dated 16th February 1869 advised the Municipal Council
to bring their case before the Legislative Council. I would state
that before the removal of the Capital took place the Municipal
Council of New Westminster placed a formal protest against such
removal in the hands of Excellency F. Seymour, which protest
bears date April 7th 1868 and it is therein stated that in the
event of the removal of the seat of Government, they would look
to the Government for the redemption of the Debentures issued by
them as before mentioned.

This protest was laid before the Legislative Council by the late
Governor and will be found in the Sessional Papers of the
Council for 1868.

As a Crown Colony, not having full representative powers and
considering the removal an act of the Home Government we come to
you for redress, feeling it to be a case entirely within the
power of the Imperial Government to help, from the fact of our
being a Crown Colony and not having those representative powers
through our Legislative Council able to deal with such an
important question.

We consider we have undoubted claims both in equity and law, and
while being adverse to creating a hurtful agitation in the
Colony or taking other steps which have been suggested, On behalf
of the Colonists of the Mainland I would ask your Lordship to
grant us a full enquiry into the matter.

I respectfully contend that we have a Claim for compensation
from the Home or Colonial Government.

That Members of the Civil Service in the Colony proved the same
confidence as regards the location of the Capital, that we as
Colonists and purchasers of lots in New Westminster from the
Government evince, in the fact that they incurred a large
expenditure in erecting houses of a permanent character in our
City, a Petition from them, as public Servants, regarding the
subject I now address your Lordship upon, is I believe before you.

I would ask that our new Governor Mr Musgrave be called upon
for a full report as to the question at issue and that your
Lordship would take under your most favorable consideration the
desirability of appointing an entirely disinterested
Commission of enquiry to look into our case.

WE ask for the return of the Capital to our City and as such
I am given to understand is inexpedient, I humbly crave for
compensation to the New Westminster lot holders who purchased
property from the Government of a Crown Colony upon
representations which have not been carried out.

WE ask for the privilege of receiving back from the Government
the amount paid at the original sale of the said lots and
consider we have a claim for at least a proportion of the
improvements made bona fide upon the same on the assurance that
New Westminster was the established Capital of the Colony.

The conditions of Sale have not been carried out but the whole of
the purchase money has been absorbed in the general revenue of
the Government.

The money borrowed by the Municipal Council of New Westminster
to which I have before referred will in a few months become due
and under the circumstances of these Debentures having been
issued upon the faith of the Government promises so plainly
given, I would ask that provisions be made either in England or
through the Governor of the Colony to guarantee the payment of
interest upon the amount now outstanding. Moreover I would urge
that payment of the said Debentures be undertaken by the
Government they receiving a certain lien upon the Municipal
taxation as security for the same.

I bring these matters before your Lordship feeling fully
confident in the justice of our cause and am assured that by the
kindly interest you were pleased to manifest in the case I laid
before you during the interview I had the honor of having
with your Lordship at the Colonial Office, you will give them
all your serious consideration.

As the representative of the Municipal Council of New
Westminster I shall await anxiously the decision of your
Lordship on the subject. I will be only too glad to furnish
full evidence to any commission of inquiry you may be pleased to
appoint and have every confidence in leaving the matter entirely
in your Lordship's hands.

I have done my best to place the whole facts before your
Lordship, to do this I have specially journeyed at a great
expense and loss of time from our far distant Colony. Those I
represent have entrusted me with their confidence and upon
their, and my own, part I respectfully lay our case before you;
having no doubt, if you are pleased to inquire into the matter
but that justice will be done. I have performed my duty and
await the issue.

Trusting your Lordship will pardon the length of this despatch
and feeling confident that you will grant the same your
favorable consideration.



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No. 91

In reply to Mr. Hankin's despatch No. 10 of the 18th June I have to
express my approval of the payment from Colonial Funds of the passage
money of Mr. Young and his family to this Country.

Mr. Young has been offered, and has accepted, the Office of the
Assistant Colonial Secretary in Jamaica and under those circumstances
his claim to a gratuity on account of the loss of his Office in British
Columbia cannot for the present at least be entertained.



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Young to Rogers (Permanent Under-Secretary)

I have had the honor of receiving your letter of the 14th
Instant, acquainting me that in consequence of the appointment
of Assistant Colonial Secretary in Jamaica having been
conferred upon me, Earl Granville cannot entertain, for the
present at least, my application for compensation for loss of
Office in British Columbia.

I would beg permission very respectfully to observe that I fear
my application has been misunderstood. It was far from my
intention to apply for compensation for loss of Office in
British Columbia. The peculiar circumstances connected with the
deprivation of Office which I suffered in that Colony were
before the Secretary of State, and I was content without further
application on my part to await at Lord Granvilles hands that
recompense which I was sure he would accord me. The issue has
proved the justness of my expectation. His Lordship has
conferred upon me, I believe, the first appointment at his
disposal since my arrival in England, and for this ready
acknowledgment of my case, I feel, as I have already expressed
myself, deeply grateful.

My removal from British Columbia, and my further employment in
Jamaica, can, however, according to the precedent, have no
bearing upon my claim to a retiring pension or allowance
for previous loss of Office for political reasons in the late
Colony of Vancouver Island, nor to the payment of such pension
while no other Office is enjoyed.

The Colony of Vancouver Island was abolished by Act of the
Imperial Parliament, the 29th and 30th Victoria Chapter 67.
According to Circular addressed by the Governor on the 13th
November 1866, to the Officers of Vancouver Island, the Offices
held in Vancouver Island were, as a necessary consequence of
such Imperial Act, also abolished.

The instances are so numerous and the principle so well
established in respect of dealing with the emoluments of Offices
which are abolished by Law that I am sure I need not extend this
communication by any lengthened references. It may, however,
not be inconvenient if I mention, as bearing directly upon
Colonial precedent, the 18 and 19 Victoria, cap 54, the Act
under which Responsible Government was extended to New South
Wales. As a necessary consequence of that Act certain superior
Officers were released or retired from Office, and provision is
made in the 51st Section that such Officers shall be entitled
by way of Pension or retiring allowance to the full amount of
the Salaries respectively received by them at the time of the
passing of the Act, subject to the condition that if further
Office under the Crown be held the pension or retiring
allowance shall merge, or be reduced pro tanto during the tenure
of such further office.

The 18th and 19th Victoria Cap. 55, the Victoria Government
Act, contains similar provisions.

The Crown Officers of Tasmania were similarly dealt with under
similar circumstances, but with this additional provision that
if they desired to
retain their Offices subject to the liability to loss contingent
upon responsible Government, then in such case they could, instead of
a pension for life, receive at once a bonus equivalent to 5
years Salary.

I could cite other instances, and instances in which subsequent
employment has been enjoyed, but I apprehend it is unnecessary,
for I understand your letter to signify that my claim to a
retiring Pension for loss of Office is not disputed, but only
that it must remain in abeyance for the present, in consequence
of an appointment having been subsequently conferred upon me.

I did not, however, ask, nor did I for one moment even
contemplate to establish any claim, to receive pension or
retiring allowance during such period as I might hold further
office. For more than two years after the loss of my Office
in Vancouver Island I held further Office in British Columbia.
I never raised the question of pension, for I considered I was
not then in a position to do so, nor should I now be in a
position to claim a pension for loss of Office in Vancouver
Island, had I not ceased to enjoy such further Office in British
Columbia, and been absolutely without its emoluments since the
7th April last.

Up to the 7th April 1869 the pension or retiring allowance for
loss of office in Vancouver Island merged in the emoluments of
the further Office I held in British Columbia, and such pension
would, of course, again merge in the emoluments of the present
Office which Lord Granville has been good enough to bestow upon me.

But irrespective of any claim I may have upon ordinary and well
established grounds, I would further mention that several
Officers who lost Office upon the extinction of Vancouver Island
as a separate Colony, and who, perhaps, according to a rigid
application of rule were really not entitled to pensions for
such loss, yet, nevertheless, received a bonus of from three to
Six months Salary, without any prejudice to subsequent
appointments bestowed upon them, and appointments too very
considerably exceeding in value the emoluments of the Office
lost. These instances were, I doubt not, duly reported to the
Secretary of State, and, therefore, I need not more particularly
refer to them. I merely mention them to shew that in making my
present application I am not asking to be placed in any
exceptional category, but merely to be treated as others have
been treated before me, and who, moreover, were in other
respects more fortunate than I have been, inasmuch as they were
not exposed to the severe losses I have suffered.

With the Crown Officers of the formerly separate Colony of
British Columbia, not one of whom lost office upon Union, the
principle of compensation has been admitted even to the extent of
construction losses, inasmuch as recompense has been sanctioned
to those gentlemen for being obliged to abandon, after Victoria
was selected as the Capital of the United Colony, the Residences
they had provided for themselves in New Westminster.

I likewise have had to abandon the Homestead I had formed for
myself in the Colony, but in my case I lost my Office as well.

I merely now ask that the Pension to which I may be entitled
under the circumstances hereinbefore
narrated may be paid to me during the period in which
I held no Office;
viz: from the 8th April to such date as I may commence to enjoy
the emoluments of the Office in Jamaica, and I sincerely trust
that with this additional information before him, and with this
explanation of the intention of my fresh application, Earl
Granville may deem that I am not asking for anything that I am
not fairly entitled to, as others have been before me, and that
his Lordship will now authorize payment to be made.



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No. 92

I transmit to you, for your information and with reference to my
Despatch No. 80 of the 7th August, a copy of a further communication
from Mr. Fisher in regard to the claims of the Municipal Council of New
Westminster to compensation on account of the removal of the capital of
British Columbia.

I also annex copy of the answer which has been returned to Mr.
Fisher.



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No. 93

I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of Mr. Hankin's
Despatch No. 36 of the 3rd August, requesting to be informed whether I
will cause the Colony of British Columbia to be reimbursed from Imperial
funds the expenses of Mr. Seymour's funeral. In reply I have to inform
you that I am unable to propose that the expense should be borne by the
British Treasury, but I shall not object to recommend the Lords
Commissioners to sanction the expenditure out of Colonial funds, if your
Council will pass a covering Vote for the amount which has been
disbursed.



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No. 94

I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of Mr. Hankin's
Despatch No. 37 of the 3rd August, reporting that the two Indians
accused of the murder of part of the crew of the "John Bright" were
tried at the last Assizes held in Victoria, were found guilty and
condemned to death.



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Laurie to Under-Secretary of State

I have the honour on behalf of the above Committee to submit the
following reply to your letter of the 31st May with enclosure
from the Governor of British Columbia.

1. As it appears from the Attorney General's Report to the
Governor that the existing Law of the Colony is
now sufficient for the purposes of the Promoters of the "Ordinance
to incorporate the Members" of St. Andrew's Church, and as there
is a prima facie inexpediency in granting to various religious
bodies separate legislative incorporation, the Committee are not
prepared at present to support the application for the enactment
of the ordinance. They must wait for further information as to
the special grounds for urging it.

2. At the same time while waiting for fuller information, the
Committee must respectfully protest against the doctrine on
which the argument of the Attorney General for the Colony of
British Columbia seems to be in large measure founded. If for
general or special reasons of local importance it be considered
expedient that the ordinance in question should be passed, no
objection can be taken to it on Constitutional grounds. The
Church of Scotland is a part of the Constitution of the United
Kingdom and is necessarily recognized as such by the Crown at
home and abroad. (See 5 Anne cap. 8 Art. 25 of the Treaty of
Union and relative Act of the Scottish Parliament 1690 cap. 5.)

On this point the Attorney General seems to be under some
misapprehension.



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Law to Rogers (Permanent Under-Secretary)

With reference to your Letter of 20 instant submitting Earl
Granvilles recommendation that an allowance of £500 should be
granted to Mrs Seymour widow of Mr F. Seymour late Governor of
British Columbia towards the expense of her passage to this
Country I am commanded by the Lords Commissioners of Her
Majesty's Treasury to acquaint you that their Lordships concur
in Earl Granvilles recommendation.



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No. 95

I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch No. 1
of the 25th August enclosing copies of the address presented to you by
the Mayor and Town Council of Victoria on your assumption of the
Government of British Columbia, and of the reply which you made on that
occasion.



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No. 96

I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of Governor Seymour's
despatch No. 44 of the 19th March enclosing copy of "An Ordinance to
incorporate the Members of the congregation of St. Andrews Presbyterian
Church in the city of Victoria, British Columbia."

As the promoters of that Ordinance recognize the Jurisdiction of
the Colonial Committee of the Church of Scotland I caused it to be
referred, to that body, in a letter of which a copy is annexed, for any
observations they might wish to make upon it.

It appears from the reply which I have received, and of which I
enclose a copy that the Colonial Committee decline to urge its adoption,
and this being the case, I consider that, independently of objections of
detail, raised by the Attorney General, the promoters of the Bill would
probably themselves desire that it should not be passed.

I have therefore to direct you to withhold your assent from it.



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No. 97

I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your Despatch No. 5
of the 2nd September enclosing copies of Addresses which were presented
to you on your assuming the Government of British Columbia together with
copies of your replies.



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No. 9

I have the honor to report my return to Victoria yesterday from
the tour on the Mainland of the Colony which I acquainted you in
my Despatch No 7 of 3rd September it was my intention to make.

2. I visited all the important settlements, and I annex Copies
of Addresses that were presented to me at New Westminster, Yale,
Lytton, William's Creek, Quesnelmouth, and Clinton, with the
replies which I made on these occasions.

3. I was received everywhere with demonstrations of cordial
loyalty to the Queen, and of personal deference and
consideration to myself as Her Majesty's Representative.

4. The impressions which I derived from my tour were more
favorable as regards the present condition and future prospects
of the Colony than I had been led to anticipate. The spirit of
excitement and speculation which pervaded the Community a few
years ago has subsided, and with it has departed a large portion
of the unsettled population which always flows into new gold
Countries. A diminution in the supplies required by them and
furnished by the forwarding traders has been regarded as a
depression of trade. But in fact the Community should be
regarded as much better without the scum of the population which
has floated off. Those who have remained to settle steadily to
occupation are almost without exception prosperous. Business of
all kinds is being built upon more stable foundations than
hitherto, and I think that indications may be plainly seen of
the growth of increasing progress.

5. Mining operations are being conducted at Cariboo with steady
industry and scientific appliances. New works are giving fair
promise; and there is reason to think that the yield of gold in
that neighbourhood is far from exhausted; although the
prodigious returns are no longer obtained which were at first
afforded by William's Creek, said to have been probably the
richest spot known in any gold-fields.

6. Agriculture is obviously attracting more attention than at
first, and is being prosecuted to a greater extent with much
success. There is scarcely a limit to the productiveness of
the soil in a large section of the Country, if only the supply
of water is sufficient, which can be, and is in many cases
obtained by irrigation. And it is notable that I did not meet
with a single instance among the many people with whom I
conversed, where disappointment was expressed at the results of
cultivation which had been undertaken; while the applications for
land are more numerous; and even the cases of disputed claims
which have been brought under my notice indicate the value which
is attached to its possession.

7. Stock farming is growing in importance, and no finer Cattle
or Sheep are to be found in any neighbouring Country than those
which the climate and pasturage of this Colony can produce.
Your Lordship will observe the significance of the fact that
attention is now being directed to obtaining a market for
produce which is raised among ourselves, instead of all our
supplies being drawn from abroad. Probably next year there will
be little or no beef imported in Victoria. The Upper Country of
the Mainland being already supplied as cheaply with meat and
Breadstuffs as any other portion of the Colony.

8. Your Lordship will remark frequent favorable references in
the Addresses which I received, to the proposed Union of the
Colony with the Dominion of Canada. It will shortly be my duty
to report fully on this subject in my reply to Your Lordship's
Despatch No 84 of the 14th August. But it is right now to
remark that the expressions contained in the Addresses cannot be
taken as representing the unanimous opinions even of the white
population residing on the Mainland; and still less as embodying
the public sentiment of Vancouver Island which contains more
than half of the total number of the united Colony.



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Law to Under-Secretary of State

The Lords Commissoners of Her Majesty's Treasury have had
before Them your Letter of the 22nd September, respecting the
application of Mr Young, late Colonial Secretary of British
Columbia for a Gratuity.

My Lords desire me to state, for the information of Lord
Granville, that, though Mr Youngs argument based upon the
compensation secured by Act of Parliament to Officers whose
offices were abolished in New South Wales, Victoria, & Tasmania
when representative Institutions were granted to these Colonies
cannot be admitted as relevant, My Lords see no objection to
His Lordship carrying out the proposal mentioned in Your Letter
of 13th August to write to the Governor that he would be glad
to hear the Legislative Council had voted Mr Young a gratuity
on the loss of Office, proportionately to those granted to other
Officers, having regard to the circumstances of each case, and
of course to the fact of Mr Youngs subsequent appointment.

If Lord Granville should think it advisable to make a more
specific recommendation My Lords are of opinion that a gratuity
equivalent to 6 months Salary might be named.



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No. 10

I forward to Your Lordship at the request of Mr Maunsell,
Private Secretary to the late Mr Seymour, a letter addressed to
me by him praying for some permanent employment in the Civil
Service.

I have very little personal acquaintance with Mr Maunsell; I
have no reason to doubt his fitness for employment; but I could
not recommend his appointment to any Office in this Colony,
where the Civil Establishment is already in some departments
more extensive than is required, and to reduce it is rendered
difficult by lack of opportunity to provide otherwise for
present incumbents.



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No. 98

I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your Despatch of the
3rd September No. 7, reporting that you were about to make a tour
through New Westminster and the Chief Settlements of the Colony to
Cariboo, and that you proposed to be absent from the Seat of Government
for about a month.

I approve of your proposal.



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No. 11

I have had the honor to receive Your Lordship's Despatches No
79 of 5th August and No 90 of 9th September respecting an
application from the Bishop of British Columbia for payment by
the Crown Agents of a sum of £400 for assisting Female
Emigration to this Colony.

2. I very much regret the delay and inconvenience which have
arisen from the omission of my Predecessor to make the necessary
report to Your Lordship's Department in proper time. I was
myself quite ignorant of the whole matter until I received Your
Lordship's Despatches, and Mr Hankin the Colonial Secretary was
not aware that you had not been acquainted with what was
proposed by the local Government. It was, I am informed by the
late Governor's Private Secretary, the intention of Mr Seymour
to have reported the Scheme just before he sailed for the
Northwest Coast, but that he had not received the final report
from the Immigration Committee and decided therefore not to do
so until all arrangements had been definitely concluded.

3. I now forward a Memorandum upon the subject prepared by Mr
Hankin, and the Minutes of the proceedings of the Immigration
Board. I think the object in view is worthy of the assistance
which the Legislative Council desired to afford.



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No. 12

I have the honor to forward the "Blue Book" of this Colony for
the Year 1868, with a report which was prepared before my
arrival here by Mr Good, the then Acting Colonial Secretary.

2. As my acquaintance with British Columbia is so very recent I
prefer to postpone for future communications any remarks I may
desire to offer for Your Lordship's consideration respecting the
several departments of public affairs; but I think that many of
Mr Good's observations, especially with regard to the financial
position of the Colony, are worthy of notice.



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Otway to Under-Secretary of State

I am directed by the Earl of Clarendon to request that you will
inform Earl Granville that a note has been received from the
Chargé d'Affaires of the North German Confederation
stating that Mr Mathew Trotter-Johnston has been appointed
Consul for the Confederation at Victoria, British Columbia and
requesting Her Majesty's Exequatur may be issued to that
gentleman to enable him to act in the above capacity, and I am
to request that you will move Lord Granville to inform Lord
Clarendon if there is any objection to the Issue of such
Exequatur to Mr Johnston, who is resident at Victoria.



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Lushington to Rogers (Permanent Under-Secretary)

I am commanded by My Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to
request, that you will move The Secretary of State for the
Colonies, to cause the sum of £1.4.6, paid for washing Linen
belonging to the Poop Cabin
of HMS "Sparrowhawk," on the occasions of the Governor of
British Columbia taking passage on board that vessel, to be
transferred to the credit of Naval Funds.



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No. 13

I have had the honor to receive Your Lordship's Despatch No 86
of the 18th August directing my serious attention to the total
disregard of instructions which has occurred in connection with
the Estimates of Revenue and Expenditure for the current year.

2. My own observation had been previously attracted to this
subject, and I thoroughly recognize the correctness of Your
Lordship's remarks. It may not be easy at once to comply fully
with what you desire in preparing the Estimates for the next
year, but I will follow the instructions given as closely as
possible and will explain why they are departed from in any
important degree or particular.

3. In any case I hope to forward those for 1870 to Your
Lordship before the close of this year.



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No. 14

I have had the honor to receive Your Lordship's Despatch No 78
of the 4th August forwarding a Report from the Crown Agents
upon Mr Hankin's Despatch No 13 of the 21st June respecting
the steps which have been taken by the Colonial Government to
meet the liabilities of the Colony on account of the British
Columbia and Vancouver Island Loans.

2. I regret to say that there is too much justification for the
remark of the Crown Agents that the financial position of the
Colony at their Office has been very imperfectly understood by
the local authorities.

3. The Statement furnished by the Crown Agents as to the
position of their Account appears upon investigation to be
correct. The amount of £18,350, which they state to be required
by the 1st January next to meet current liabilities, has been
reduced by remittances since the date of their letter to the
extent of £9,800, so that £8,550 will be the amount necessary to
be forwarded by 1st December, and this amount I hope to be able
to make arrangements to furnish in proper time.



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No. 15

I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of Your Lordship's
Despatch of 7th September, forwarding the undermentioned
Parliamentary Papers.

*



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No. 16

I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of Your
[Lordship's] despatches noted in the margin.

*



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No. 17

I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of Your Lordship's
Despatches of the numbers and dates noted in the margin,

*

and to transmit herewith the schedules of those remaining unanswered.



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No. 99

I have to acquaint you that an application has been received from
the Charge d'Affaires of the North German Confederation at this Court,
for the issue of an Exequatur to Mr. Mathew Trotter Johnston as Consul
for the Confederation at Victoria.

As this Gentleman appears to be resident in the Colony under your
Government, I have to instruct you to report to me whether you are
aware, or not, of any objection to his appointment, and if not, you will
recognize him provisionally in that capacity until the arrival of the
Exequatur.



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Ransom to Granville

I beg to enclose as required by our Deed of Settlement, the half
yearly Statement of this Bank for the six months ended 30th
June last.



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Barwise to Granville

Some gentlemen with whom I am connected are about establishing
an association for the purpose of developing the Salmon
Fisheries in British Columbia, more particularily for the
curing, drying and preserving the fish in the Frasier River
and its tributaries.

May I be allowed to ask if your Lordship's Department can grant
such an association any assistance, or privilege of Fishing in
the said waters, and can in any way conduce to the developement
of this productive source of Colonial Industry at present
entirely neglected.



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No. 18

With reference to Your Lordship's Circular Despatch of the 17th
July respecting the continued supply of the Mercantile Navy
Lists to the Colonies, I have the honor to report that it is
very desirable if not absolutely essential that one Copy of each
edition should be supplied to the Custom House at Victoria to
furnish information of additions that have been made from time
to time to the list of British Registered Ships.

2. That single Copy will I think be sufficient for the purposes
of this Colony.



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No. 19

Before I received Your Lordship's Despatch No 84 of the 14th
August, the question in agitation respecting the Union of this
Colony with the Dominion of Canada had naturally engaged my
attention; but a very short acquaintance with the community made
it apparent that its condition, and its relations to Canada as
well as the United States, are very different from those of the
Atlantic Provinces, and I have deferred any communication to
Your Lordship until a little more time had been afforded me for
acquiring further information.

2. I have now printed Your Lordship's Despatch in the local
Gazette in accordance with your direction to give publicity to
it. But I should have thought myself equally carrying out your
instructions in their spirit, and perhaps better promoting the
object in view, by waiting until the Legislative Council meets
in December, and first as a matter of respect laying it before
that body, if it were not that I have reason to believe that the
substance of that Despatch has already been communicated to
unofficial persons here by others in Canada to whom it had
become officially known. There is some little irritation at the
manner in which, it is supposed, persons in official authority
in Canada endeavour to work in favor of the project through
private correspondence with individuals here who have no
official status and little social influence. And I have thought
it best under these circumstances to remove at once any doubt as
to Your Lordship's views—to show the position of the local
Government under your instruction—and to take the conduct of
the matter into my own hands from those of persons who are not
likely to carry it to a successful issue. I believe such an
issue to be possible; but the difficulties in the way of its
accomplishment are practically far greater than, and of quite a
different character from any which have to be overcome in the
Eastern Provinces.

3. I am aware that it is believed, in Canada, and I think it
has been represented to Your Lordship, that there is a very
general desire for Union, and that opposition is almost entirely
confined to Official Members of the Council. The servants of
Her Majesty's Government would not unnaturally look with anxiety
to know how their positions would be affected by any such
change; but they have not in fact declared any opposition, and
if their opinions were entirely disregarded it is not by any
means clear that the majority of the community are prepared for
Union with the Dominion, except on terms which are not likely to
be possible, or with a view to political arrangments for which
this community is by no means ripe. With regard to the position
of the present Official servants of the Crown, I think that any
personal motive for opposition to the proposed Union may be
removed by provision for their retirement on suitable Pensions,
or at least that they should have the option of so retiring.
Precedent for such an arrangement is to be found in what was
done on the introduction of Responsible Government in the
Eastern Provinces. And it would only be equitable, as
undoubtedly much unwillingness will be experienced to changing
the present tenure of their Offices immediately from Her
Majesty's Government to one under a party Government in Canada.
But a stipulation on this point might reasonably be made part of
any terms of agreement with the Dominion; and this difficulty
could be so removed. But there will still remain some questions
not so easy to be solved.

4. The more prominent of the Agitators for Confederation are a
small knot of Canadians who hope that it may be possible to make
fuller representative institutions and Responsible Government
part of the new arrangements, and that they may so place
themselves in positions of influence and emolument. To obtain
support for their purposes they lead the Mercantile portion of
the Community to believe that a successful attempt may be made
to secure in terms with Canada that Victoria should be made a
Free Port. From this combination the movement derives its
greatest force. The remainder of their following consists of
persons who are favorable to Union partly from sentiment, partly
from restless desire for any change which they hope may improve
their own prospects, without much thought of how this is to be
effected, and without any consideration of the obstacles which
may be in the way of satisfactory Union. When the leaders find
that neither Responsible Government nor stipulation for a Free
Port can reasonably be made part of the Programme, I am strongly
of opinion that there will be much abatement of present enthusiasm.

5. But the advocates of Confederation do not include the whole
community, though they have put themselves prominently forward,
while their opponents have been comparatively silent. The total
white population in both sections of the United Colony does not
amount to ten thousand. Of these much more than half are
resident in Vancouver Island principally at Victoria. A very
large proportion both here and on the Mainland, are not British
subjects, and not unnaturally would lean rather towards
annexation to the United States, if there is to be a change,
though they live contentedly enough under what they admit to be
an equitable government, in which the laws are fairly
administered. Among those who are British subjects and have
emigrated from Great Britain the feeling in favor of
Confederation is not strong, though they are not so much
professional "politicians" as many of their Colonial neighbours
and do not take the same pains to publish their views. Withal,
it would not be right to omit to mention that for some cause or
other the members of the Community who have emigrated from
Canada, with some notable and admitted exceptions, have not
contrived to impress their fellow colonists with a prejudice in
their favor; and this fact has tended to produce a
disinclination with many to transfer the control of their
affairs to Canadian authority as they imagine would be the case
in the event of Union.

6. Some fear too exists on the part of the Agriculturists that
even a Canadian Tariff would be too low in its rates on
Agricultural produce to afford them the protection they believe
themselves to require. And they are still less in favor of any
desire for a Free Port.

7. I have said enough to show Your Lordship that there is great
diversity in the views entertained upon this important question.
But though the difficulties in respect of it are complicated I
do not regard them as insuperable. It will be necessary to
clear some incidental questions from the ground of discussion.
I have already touched upon that of provision for such of the
existing incumbents of Public Offices as Your Lordship shall
think should so be provided for. But another question which is
certain to assume prominence is that of the introduction of
"Responsible Government" in the local administration after
Union. I must at once state my opinion that it would be
entirely inapplicable to a Community so small and so constituted
as this—a sparse population scattered over a vast area of
country. There is scarcely material even for the imperfect
representative Legislative Chamber now existing; and any
effective "responsibility" would be out of the question, except
of Officials to the Lieutenant Governor and of him to his
Official superiors. A third point of importance is the
possibility of making Victoria a Free Port. Great stress is
laid upon this by many of the present advocates of Union. But I
must admit my belief that no benefit would thus be conferred
upon the Colony at large, and that any advantage would only be
derived by unscrupulous traders who would have facilities
afforded to them for illicit traffic with the neighbouring
American territories. Victoria has never had, has not now, and
is not likely to have for years to come, any Export trade to
other places which could render it a substantial good to the
Colony to establish a Free Port. It is admitted with almost
unblushing readiness that abolition of all duties and port
charges is desired for the facility which was formerly afforded
for smuggling into the United States. I need not insist to Your
Lordship upon the impropriety of such a policy, but it would be
quite as well understood by our neighbours as by ourselves, and
in the end would defeat its own object, while exciting still
further irritation and jealousy as regards the commerce of this
place, of which indeed we already feel the effects.

8. In my opinion therefore neither the sacrifice of present
Public Officers, the introduction of Responsible Government, nor
the establishment of a Free Port need or ought to form part of
the Scheme of Union; but if they do not I think it will be found
that there will be a great change in the views of those who now
clamor most loudly for it. On the other hand a great deal of
opposition would be removed on the part of many who do not wish
to injure the Public servants, who entirely object to
Responsible Government in the circumstances of this Colony, who
regard a Free Port as very injurious to the local producers in a
young and struggling community, and who fear Confederation lest
these evils should flow from it.

9. Apart from the conflict upon these questions and assuming
them to find satisfactory solution, there yet remain some of
practical difficulty as regards the financial aspect of the
matter. The liabilities of this Colony are very heavy, and the
population is very small, so that there cannot be any
contribution payable to her on the score of the difference of
amount of indebtedness per head as in the case of the Eastern
Provinces. The machinery of government is unavoidably expensive
from the great cost of living, which is at least twice as much
as in Canada, and the great area over which the action of
government must be maintained for a small number of residents.
The Tariff and Excise duties being given up to the Dominion
would not leave other existing sources of Revenue sufficient for
local requirements; and the grant in aid under the British North
America Act 1867 to the other Provinces, of 80 cents per head to
the population, would amount only to an insignificant sum in our case.

10. Besides these matters for consideration, it must be
remembered that many advantages of important kind and degree
will be derived by the Atlantic Provinces from Union with
Canada, which must from geographical position be wanting to this
Colony. In Newfoundland for instance almost all her supplies
both of raw material and manufactured goods, excepting products
not grown in a Northern Climate, may in future be drawn from
Canada duty free; and while Canadian trade is augmented the
taxation of the Newfoundland consumer will be lightened. In our
case the Rocky Mountains are a more formidable barrier than the
Gulf of St. Lawrence. Free commercial intercourse would be
easier with Australia than with Canada; and the administration
of Official departments could practically be conducted with
equally great facility in London as at Ottawa.

11. For these reasons the establishment of a line of
communication at least by a Waggon Road if not by a Railway as a
condition of Union will probably be brought forward in
discussion; and in a Colony which by its own unaided energy and
resources has constructed the astonishing Road from Yale through
the Canons

of the Fraser River to Lytton and thence by the
Thomson River to Cariboo, over which I have recently travelled
for five hundred miles, it does not seem by any means an
extravagant thing to expect that the Government of the Dominion
should undertake to complete a line of communication; of which
this little community has already accomplished a considerable
part of at least equal difficulty with any remaining to be
constructed, and produced a work of which they may well be
proud. Your Lordship will see that the details and terms of the
proposed Union are by no means easy to be arranged; but now that
the general views of Her Majesty's Government have been
communicated to me I shall give my anxious attention to devise
the best means of carrying them into effect.

12. The whole subject will be brought forward at your instance
during the next Session of the Legislature. I shall prepare
with the aid of my Council some plan of Union as a tentative
proposition which will at least evoke discussion; and after the
matter has been more fully and more fairly argued I shall be
better able to report to your Lordship the special bearing upon
our case of questions and difficulties of which I feel that as
yet I can only present to you a superficial view.

13. I will transmit to Sir John Young a Copy of this Despatch
as the best mode of acquainting him with my present impressions
respecting the question which has naturally so great an interest
for his government.



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Chesson to Granville

I am desired by the Committee of the Aborigines Protection
Society to enclose for your Lordship's information a proof of a
letter giving a deplorable account of the condition and
treatment of the Indian tribes of Vancouver Island.

It is not in the powers of the Society to carry out the
suggestions of the writer that they should establish an agency
in the island, neither does the Society desire in any way to
encroach on the functions of the colonial government. But we
could respectfully submit to your Lordship that the facts
disclosed in Mr Sebright Green's letter tend to show that
humanity and good faith have not been observed towards the
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No. 20

Referring to Your Lordship's Circular Despatch of the 26th
August, I have the honor to request that I may be furnished with
two additional Copies of the Memoranda, and of the Papers
annexed to the second Memorandum, therein enclosed.

2. The Act for amending the Law relating to the Coasting Trade
and Merchant Shipping in British Possessions has been proclaimed
in accordance with the provision of the third Section.



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No. 100

I have the honor to transmit to you herewith the Queen's Commission
under the Great Seal appointing you to be Governor and Commander in
Chief of the Colony of British Columbia and its dependencies, together
with the Instructions under the Royal Sign Manual and Signet
accompanying the same.



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No. 21

Referring to my Despatch No 14 of the 20th October, I have the
honor to acquaint Your Lordship that I have made a remittance of
(£4,000) Four Thousand Pounds, to the Crown Agents by this Mail;
and the remainder of the amount required at the beginning of
January shall be forwarded by the end of this Month.



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No. 22

I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of Your Lordship's
Despatches of 10th and 22nd September forwarding the
undermentioned Parliamentary Papers:

11th Report of Medical Officer of Privy Council, 1868, 2 copies.

Returns of Crown Land, Colonies.



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No. 23

I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your Despatches
of the numbers and dates noted in the Margin,

*

and to transmit schedules of those remaining unanswered.



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No. 101

With reference to my Despatch No. 91 of the 13th September, I
transmit to you copies of a correspondence between Mr. W.A.G. Young,
this department and the Treasury, in regard to his application for a
gratuity on account of the loss of his office.

I have to authorize you to bring this correspondence before your
Council with a recommendation that a gratuity equivalent to not more
than six months salary should be voted to Mr. Young.



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Carnarvon to Rogers (Permanent Under-Secretary)

I have to acknowledge your letter of the 20th ult: relative to
the Salary of the late Governor of British Columbia. I have not
yet been able to find any mem: which throws light on the
arrangements made at the time that Mr Seymour undertook the
 Government of the Colony; but I will make further search and
will communicate to you the results.



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No. 24

After the Despatches which accompany this were written, but
before they were signed, I had the misfortune to sustain a
compound fracture of the right leg. I was unable therefore to
transmit my bag by the then outgoing Mail. I am glad to say
that I am progressing favorably, and I hope rapidly, toward
recovery; but under the circumstances I have no doubt that Your
Lordship will grant me indulgence for the postponement of some
matters which would otherwise earlier engage my attention.



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No. 102

I have to inform you that the sum of £5.12.4 being the Balance due
to you on account of the sum of £225 originally paid by you to Mr. Gordon
Gairdner, the Chief Clerk of my Office, in repayment of the Advances made
by him from Public Funds on account of the Charges and Stamp on your
Commission as Governor of the Colony of British Columbia has been paid
over to the Crown Agents for the Colonies with instructions to place the
amount to your credit in their Account with the Colony of British
Columbia.

You will take the necessary steps for repaying yourself this amount
from Colony Funds.



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Barwise to Sandford (Assistant Under-Secretary)

I have the honor to acknowledge your kind
reply to mine addressed to the Right Honble the Earl of
Granville, of the date of the 30th Ultimo, on the subject of
the Salmon Fisheries on the Frazer River, British Columbia, and
am particularly obliged by your polite attention, and have the
honor to remain Sir



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No. 103

I transmit to you for your information copies of a correspondence
between Mr. Barwise and this department on the subject of granting
assistance or privileges to an association which it is proposed to form
for the purpose of developing the Salmon Fisheries in the Fraser and
its Tributaries.

If the Association should make any application on the subject to
your Government it must be considered whether a compliance with their
request would bring them into Collision with the Indians.



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No. 25

I have the honor to forward the usual certificates of my having
granted, with the advice of the Executive Council, six months
leave of absence to Mr William Montague Cochrane, Clerk to the
Magistrate in Cariboo, and to acquaint Your Lordship that Mr
T.H. Sullivan will fill his place in the meanwhile.



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No. 26

I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of Your Lordship's
Despatch of 30th Sept. forwarding the undermentioned
Parliamentary Papers:
Emigration Returns, 6 copies.



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No. 27

I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of Your Lordship's
Despatches of the number & dates noted in the Margin,

*

and to transmit the schedules of those remaining unanswered.



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No. 104

I have the honor to transmit to you a copy of a letter from the
Secretary to the Aborigines Protection Society relative to the condition
of the Indians in Vancouver Island.

I should be glad to receive from you any observation you may wish
to offer on the subject.



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Chesson to Sandford (Assistant Under-Secretary)

I beg to thank you for your letter with reference to the Indians
of Vancouver Island and to enclose you, as you request, another
copy of the letter which was addressed to me by Mr W. Sebright
Green of Victoria.



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Confidential

I have given my careful attention to Your Lordship's
Confidential Despatches of the 24th and 25th August respecting
arrangements for participation by British Columbia in the
advantages of any Treaty affecting the Commerce between the
British North American Possessions and the United States.

2. In the first of these Despatches Your Lordship acquaints me
that Her Majesty's Government wish to receive from me
confidentially such a statement as I may think best for securing
that the interests of British Columbia should meet with just
consideration. As my acquaintance with the affairs of this
Colony is yet so recent I have requested Mr Hamley the
Collector of Customs and a Member of the Executive Council to
prepare a Minute upon the subject of which I enclose a Copy for
Your Lordship's information. From my own observations and such
other material for forming an opinion as I have been enabled to
collect I concur in the conclusion at which Mr Hamley has
arrived that such a Treaty as is sketched in the Memorandum
prepared by Mr Rose will be upon the whole substantially
beneficial to British Columbia. But I am aware that this
opinion is by no means unanimously entertained, and I am
informed that on some confidential discussion of the advantage
of a Treaty of Reciprocal Trade, in the Legislative Council
during last Session, it was agreed almost without dissent that
such a Treaty would not be advantageous. It is thought by the
opponents of the Measure that the Agricultural interests of this
Colony would be entirely sacrificed by the free admission of
farm produce from the adjacent American Territories, while they
regard the free interchange of the products of our forests and
mines as of less importance in as much as this Colony possesses
as they think natural advantages in these respects sufficient to
ensure ready Markets for our Coal and lumber notwithstanding the
existing duties on these articles imposed by the United States.

In the presence of such a feeling it is not certain that the
Council would desire to adopt such a Treaty, more especially as
its effects would be to diminish our present import duties to
the extent of about seventeen per cent, creating a deficiency
of Revenue which it might be difficult to supply from other sources.

5. Your Lordship's will therefore see that, with those who
doubt the value of the Treaty in question, the facility for
obtaining it which would be afforded by this Colony being
treated as a part of Canada in the negociations on the subject
is not likely to be regarded as of great importance. In fact
the advocates of Reciprocity are those who are in favor of
Confederation and the opponents of Union see no advantage in
Reciprocity.

6. It is not of course reasonable to expect that any special
modification of the Treaty could be made in favor of this Colony
when no valuable equivalent can be offered, and until the
question shall assume a shape in which it might be submitted to
the local Legislature it appears most desirable in any
arrangement which may be possible simply to stipulate that
British Columbia should be included on the assent of her
Legislature, leaving it to that body to decide the question. If
the arrangement should thus be presented to them as one at their
option to accept or reject I have little doubt that the
Community will then see that the operation of the Treaty would
upon the whole be very much to their advantage.



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White to Sandford (Assistant Under-Secretary)

I have the honor to request that I may be allowed an extension
of leave for a period of six months from the 1st March 1870.

I joined the Civil Service of British Columbia in March 1863, &
came home in March 1869, on twelve months leave.

I am very anxious to proceed to Canada, where I have some
relatives whom I have not seen for several years, & some private
business that requires my presence.

Under these Circumstances I trust there will be no objection to
granting my request.



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No. 28

I have the honor to forward for Your Lordship's consideration a
letter addressed to you by Mr Crease the Attorney General of
this Colony accompanied by one directed to myself on the subject
of the scale of Fees payable to him for professional services
rendered to the Crown.

2. These communications though dated the 1st September did not
reach me until the middle of October when I returned from my
tour on the Mainland.

3. The subject is one with which I find some difficulty in
dealing, as in no Colony of which I have any personal experience
has the Attorney General received special remuneration beyond
his fixed Salary for services rendered to the Government.
The case, however, may be different in the Crown Colonies with
which I have not been acquainted, and I should observe that the
Attorney General's salary is small for his rank and the
importance of his office; and is certainly very moderate having
reference to the cost of living.

4. Under these circumstances I shall be glad to be furnished
with Your Lordship's instructions upon a matter which it appears
from these papers my predecessor intended to bring under your notice.



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No. 29

The account with Her Majesty's Government in respect of
expenditure for the Detachment of Royal Marines stationed on the
Island of San Juan being now overpaid I have the honor to
acquaint Your Lordship that I yesterday drew upon the Paymaster
General in the usual manner for the sum of (£1,500), Fifteen
Hundred Pounds, and I request that Your Lordship will cause the
Bill to be accepted on presentation.



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No. 30

With reference to my Despatches No 14 of the 20th October, and
No 21 of the 2nd November, I have the honor to report that I
have made a further remittance to the Crown Agents by this Mail,
of the sum of (£4,550), Four Thousand, Five Hundred, and Fifty
Pounds, which will complete the amount required at the beginning
of January on the account of this Colony with their Office.



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No. 31

I think it my duty to report to Your Lordship the anomalous
position in which I found the office of Treasurer in this
Government on my arrival in the Colony.

2. It is the principal department of Revenue, Expenditure, and
Public Accounts, and yet has been allowed to remain for nearly
three years without any recognized head—left to the
administration of a clerk who has given no security for the safe
custody of the Public monies.

3. In Mr Seymour's Despatch No 58 of the 6th April, 1867,
he has mentioned his recommendation which was subsequently acted
upon, that Mr Franks, then Treasurer of the Continental portion
of the Colony, should be relieved from his duties, and his
further suggestion that Mr Watson, late incumbent of the office
of Treasurer of Vancouver Island, which Mr Seymour treated as
having been abolished, should be appointed Treasurer of the
United Colony.

4. In the same Despatch Mr Seymour stated however that he
found the financial embar[r]assment much greater than he
anticipated, and also that what he mentioned as the light duties
of the office of Treasurer could be performed without much
trouble or increase of pay by the Collector of Customs.

5. I now find that this arrangement was never carried out,
although Mr Watson was removed from the office of Treasurer,
and that, as I have stated, the Department has remained merely
in charge of the Chief Clerk, who has given no security and has
required the assistance of two subordinates in the discharge of
his duties. While in effect there is no responsible official to
whom the Governor can look for assistance in the adjustment and
administration of the financial arrangements of the Colony.

6. I have no doubt that the amalgamation of the Customs and
Treasury into one Revenue Department under the Collector of
Customs, or any other Officer who might be selected as Receiver
General, would have been a most desirable arrangement, though my
own experience does not teach me that the duties of the office
of Treasurer and Public Accountant in any Colony are so light as
to be performed without trouble or increase of expense in
another department. But such a reorganization of these public
departments, which would have been easy and most desirable two
years and a half ago is not now to be so readily accomplished,
nor is it now free from objection. In view of the Union of this
Colony with the Dominion of Canada it would be profitless to
consolidate offices which would have to be again disunited, as
the Customs would be a Department of the federal Government and
the local administration would require a Treasury of its own.
On the other hand, having regard to the necessity which exists
for economy in the management of the finances, and to the
fact that for nearly three years the office, though not the
duties, has been practically abolished I am not at present
prepared to recommend the appointment of a Treasurer. Yet it is
obviously improper on general principles that the public should
be without security for the safe custody of the public monies,
while at the same time it would be hard upon Mr Graham, the
Clerk in charge after being allowed to remain so for more than
two years and a half without any objection on this score, to be
required now without further remuneration to give security which
would probably entail upon him some expense.

7. I admit that under the complicated circumstances which I
have brought to Your Lordships notice, I am disinclined for the
present to attempt any alteration of existing arrangements from
which no absolute evil has yet arisen, but I feel them to be so
irregular that I could not allow them to continue without
acquainting Your Lordship with the state of affairs and my
reasons for not immediately taking some steps in the matter, in
order that Your Lordship may be able to furnish me with any
instructions that you may think expedient under the
circumstances.



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No. 32

Referring to Your Lordship's Circular Despatch of the 30th
September, respecting the mode of appointment to Public Offices,
in which you request to be informed whether I see any objection
to the adoption of the Rule which Your Lordship proposed for the
future, I have the honor to report that I am not aware of any
reason why that rule should not be established. The Offices in
respect of which it is still intended to issue Warrants include
all which could possibly require the formal authority for appointment.



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Villars to Granville

On the 5th of October 1868 a memorial was forwarded to the then
Secretary of State for the Colonies signed by all the companies
and firms connected with British Columbia, and by other
colonists then in England in favour of the inclusion of that
colony in the Reciprocity Treaty about to be renewed between the
United States and the Dominion of Canada.

His Grace the Duke of Buckingham stated in reply on 19th
October 1868, that he would communicate upon the subject with
the Governors of the Dominion and of British Columbia.

Since that time the further progress of this matter is shown by
the Papers on "Union of British Columbia with the Dominion of
Canada" (Parliamentary Paper, 3rd August, 1869.)

An announcement has also lately been made in the public
newspapers that a new Reciprocity Treaty has been drafted at
Washington by the representatives of Canada and the United States.

I am now requested, on the part of the memorialists, to bring
under your Lordship's notice the prayer of their memorial
referred to, namely, "that steps may be taken to secure that the
benefits of the Reciprocity Treaty shall be extended to all the
British North American Colonies which shall desire its extension
to them, and shall modify their tariffs to its requirements."

The Confederation of British Columbia with the Dominion
appearing to be made dependent on the opening of an overland
communication, which may be delayed, there is reason to fear
that the Treaty of Reciprocity between the Dominion and the
United States may precede the admission of British Columbia into
the Dominion, in which case British Columbia, while
unconfederated, would not share in the advantages of the Treaty
unless special provision were made to that effect.

Your Lordship, it is hoped, will take such further steps in this
matter as may seem fit.



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Stansfeld to Under-Secretary of State

I am directed by the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's
Treasury to acquaint you, for the information of Earl Granville,
that My Lords have had before them the Ordinance No 21
of 1869 "To Establish Public Schools throughout the Colony of
British Columbia," transmitted in your letter of 18th ult.

I am to state that as provision has been made in the Estimates
for the current year for educational purposes, out of which My
Lords presume that the Grants to be made under the authority of
the Governor, as provided in the Ordinance, will be issued, they
see no reason to object to the Ordinance.



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No. 105

I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch No. 9
of the 15th October reporting your return from a tour through the
mainland of the Colony.

I have read with interest your account of the Colony and the
Addresses with which you were welcomed at New Westminster, Yale, Lytton,
Williams Creek, Cariboo, Clinton, Lightning Creek and Quesnelmouth.



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No. 106

I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your Despatch No. 10
of the 16th October enclosing a letter addressed to you By Mr. Maunsell
in which he asks that some permanent employment may be found for him.
I have to request you to inform Mr. Maunsell that I will place his name
on my List of Candidates for employment, and consider his case, with
those of others, if any suitable vacancy should occur.



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No. 107

With reference to my Despatch of the 20th of April last, I transmit
to you for your information a revised Route of the Squadron under Rear
Admiral Hornby.



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No. 33

I forward for Your Lordship's information an Extract from the
Minutes of the Executive Council relative to the cases of three
Indians convicted of Murder and sentenced to death in three
different cases during the last Assizes on the Mainland.

2. The first is a case in which I think no doubt could
arise, and I see no reason to interfere with the sentence of the
Court. The Convict known as George will be executed.

3. In the second case I concur with the Council in regarding
the evidence, which relates to the murder of a white settler
committed seven years ago, as very unsatisfactory. The case
turns on the testimony of a single Indian Witness, the accuser,
whose motives are not free from suspicion. But if not falsely
accused the Prisoner is guilty of a foul Crime fully deserving
the extreme Penalty of the Law. I have therefore without
commuting the sentence granted a reprieve in the hope that some
new light may be thrown upon the case.

4. The third Convict is a mere boy, under sentence of death for
attempting the murder of a White man with whom he was travelling
in the interior of the Country. There is no doubt that his
crime was of great treachery, and it was only by accident that
it was not Murder. But I am informed by Chief Justice Begbie
that the case is not one where sentence of death would be
inflicted in England, and he agrees with me in the propriety of
commuting it to that of imprisonment for life, which I have
therefore done for the reasons stated more at length in the
Minutes of the Executive Council.

5. I trust that Your Lordship will approve of my decision in
these cases. I am not quite sure that it is now required that I
should trouble Your Lordship with Reports on such occasions. I
think I remember a Circular Despatch to other Colonies
acquainting the Officers administering the Government that it
was no longer necessary to report convictions for Capital
Offences. But it appears to have been the practise in this
Colony to do so, and there may be reasons which induce Your
Lordship to retain the regulation in the peculiar circumstance
of this Colony. I shall be glad to be instructed upon this point.



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No. 34

I had the honor yesterday to receive Your Lordship's Despatch
No 100 of the 2nd November, transmitting to me the Queen's
Commission under the Great Seal appointing me to be Governor and
Commander in Chief of the Colony of British Columbia and its
dependencies together with the accompanying Instructions under
the Royal Sign Manual and Signet, which shall be carefully observed.



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No. 35

I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your Despatch No
99 of the 21st October, acquainting me that application has
been made for the issue of an Exequatur to Mr Mathew Trotter
Johnston as Consul for the North German Confederation in this
Colony, and desiring me to report to Your Lordship whether I am
aware of any objection to the appointment of this Gentleman.

2. I have the honor to inform Your Lordship in reply, that I
know of no reason why Mr Johnston should not be a fitting
person to fill the proposed Office.



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No. 36

I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of Your Lordship's
Despatches of the 13th & 21st October, forwarding the
undermentioned Parliamentary Papers.

"Admission of Newfoundland into the Dominion of Canada," 4 copies.

"Railway Accidents"—Part 3, 1869—2 copies.



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Lugard to Under-Secretary of State

I am directed by Mr Secretary Cardwell to transmit to you the
accompanying medal for Long Service and Good Conduct awarded the
man named in the margin

*

and I am to request you will move Earl
Granville to cause the same to be forwarded to the Governor of
Vancouver's Island, with a view to its delivery to Pensioner
Sullivan, who is now residing in that Island.



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No. 37

I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your despatches,
on the 6th Inst., of the number and dates noted in the Margin,

*

and to transmit the schedules of those remaining unanswered.



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No. 38

I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt on the 7th Inst. of
your despatches of the number and dates noted in the margin.

*



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No. 39

I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt on the 8th Inst. of
your despatches, of the numbers and dates noted in the margin.

*

.ra I have etc.



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No. 108

I transmit to you for delivery to Pensioner James Sullivan R.A. who
is a resident in Vancouvers Island a medal which has been awarded to him
for long service and good conduct and which I have received from the
Secretary of State for War.



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No. 109

I am directed by the Secretary of State to acknowledge the receipt
of your Despatch No. 25 of the 13th of November and to convey to you the
confirmation of the leave of absence for Six months which you have
granted to Mr. W.M. Cochrane, Clerk to the Magistrate of Cariboo.



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No. 110

I enclose for your information, and with reference to Governor
Seymour's Despatch, No. 42, of the 19th of March, a copy of an
application which I have received from Mr. John White, Clerk to the
Magistrate of the Columbia District, requesting an extension of his
leave of absence from British Columbia for Six Months from the 1st of
March next.

As Mr. White has already been granted the full leave of absence to
which his service entitled him I have caused him to be informed that I
am unable to accede to his application.



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No. 111

With your Despatch No. 23, of the 2nd November you transmit to me
blank Schedules of Arrears resting with you and with this Department.

I have however to call you attention to the undermentioned
Despatches from this Department which although not requiring your
immediate attention ought to e included in the Schedule of Arrears
resting with you.

*



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No. 40

In Your Lordship's Despatch No 82 of the 9th of August,
acknowledging Mr Seymour's Despatch No 58 of the 24th March,
forwarding a Petition addressed to the Queen by the Legislative
Council praying her Majesty to remove the present unsatisfactory
condition of the Courts of Justice of British Columbia, Your
Lordship observes in reply that if the Ordinance No 8 of 1869
is likely to cause some of the inconveniences apprehended by the
Legislative Council it is unfortunate that the Council did not
act upon the invitation made by the Duke of Buckingham in his
Despatch of the 26th June 1868 No 40 and modify the Draft
Ordinance sent from England so as to remove or mitigate these
inconveniences.

2. I think it right to acquaint Your Lordship that not only was
the Duke of Buckingham's invitation contained in that Despatch
never communicated to the
Legislative Council, but that the Executive Council
were also without any knowledge of the permission which it
conveyed. I naturally laid before the Executive Council Your
Lordship's last Despatch and the greatest surprise was
expressed; the Attorney General, the Chief Commissioner of Lands
and Works, the Collector of Customs, the Members of the Board at
the time of the passage of the Bill, with the exception of Mr
Young late Colonial Secretary who has now left the Colony,
requested to be allowed to place a Memorandum on the Minutes of
the Council, of which I enclose a Copy; from which it is obvious
that the Bill was passed by the Votes of the Official Members
only, and by those members under the impression that it was the
expressed desire of the Secretary of State that the Draft Bill
sent out should be so passed without modification of any importance.

3. I very unwillingly trouble Your Lordship upon a subject
which has already occasioned much correspondence, but I know
that Your Lordship's reply to their Memorial cannot be
communicated to the Legislature under the circumstances which I
mention, without causing much discussion and irritation; and I
should regard myself as failing in my duty if I withheld from
Your Lordship my knowledge of the great dissatisfaction which
prevails upon the subject of the duplex judicial system, and the
feeling which has been excited by the manner in which it is
supposed that the Act of 1869 has been forced by Her Majesty's
Government upon the acceptance of the community against its will.

4. I enclose Copies of two Memorials presented to me almost
immediately upon my arrival—one signed by nearly all the men of
business in the Colony, and the other by nearly all the Members
of the legal profession—both urging strongly the objections
entertained to the division of the Colony by the separate action
of two Courts. It is certainly a significant fact within my own
knowledge that the Chief Justice of the Mainland has been in the
practice at times for the convenience of suitors, of sitting in
Victoria Vancouver's Island to hear applications and make
orders, in respect of the Courts of the Mainland. It is not for
me to decide upon the legality of such a proceeding, though I
admit that I regard it as open to doubt, but I mention the fact
as illustrating the practical difficulty which exists in
separating the legal business of the Mainland from the
Commercial requirements of Victoria which is the Mercantile
focus of the whole Colony. It is exceedingly expensive and
troublesome to the Mercantile body in Victoria to be obliged to
send up to New Westminster nearly 100 miles distant by Sea to
take proceedings before the Court there in respect of their
dealings with parties on the Mainland.

5. The object in view is that concurrent jurisdiction should be
established, or in other words that the two Courts should be
made one or branches of the same, giving the two Judges
coordinate authority, and enabling them to sit together in bench
when necessary as a Court of Appeal for the reconsideration of
the decisions of either. At present although the Ordinance of
1869 provides for the sitting together of the two Judges it is
only at the request of either of them for the assistance of the
other, and not as a matter of right or option with suitors.
I enclose for your Lordship's information a Copy of the Report
of a select Committee of the Legislative Council made during the
last Session which I believe has not hitherto been submitted to you.

6. I am not ignorant of the one great defect which may be urged
in respect of the latter portion of this proposed arrangement
but it is not necessarily inseparable from the concurrence of
jurisdiction. The chief objection is that in the event of
difference of opinion between the two Chief Justices there would
be no Umpire. In reply it is urged that such cases would
probably be rare, as compared with the whole legal business of
the Court; and that the fact of the decision of either single
Judge being liable to revision by his colleague in conjunction
with himself, would tend to induce more careful and mature
deliberation in the first instance; while in the rare case of
decided disagreement it would be open to the parties to appeal
to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council; the position of
suitors being at all events even in these cases rendered no
worse than at present, when they are without the means of
obtaining any local revision of the decision of a single Judge.
And it is said that in many cases there must be great advantage
in the opportunity being afforded to any single Judge for
consultation with a Co-adjutor upon difficult questions.

7. There can be little doubt that much advantage might be so
derived where two Judges work harmoniously together. But if it
should be thought that risk of irreconcileable opinion is too
great to be encountered, it is quite possible to establish
coordinate jurisdiction for both branches of the Court over the
whole area of the Colony without provision for the sitting
together of the Judges, simply leaving it to suitors to
determine in which section of the Colony and before which Judge
they prefer to bring their suits or to take proceedings.

8. In such a measure as I venture respectfully to suggest to
Your Lordship it does not appear that the status or emoluments
of the two Chief Justices need in any way be touched. They
would remain the Chief Justices of Vancouver Island and the
Mainland respectively, and precedence may be given to the one in
Vancouver Island and to the other on the Mainland as is provided
in the Ordinance of 1869 for cases where they might sit together
by private arrangement. But they would, in fact, become Judges
of the same Court which would have uniform jurisdiction
throughout the limits of the Colony; separate writs and double
legal proceedings would no longer be necessary in respect of
business between Victoria and the Mainland; and a great cause of
discontent would be removed so far as it appears possible to
lessen or remove it during the incumbency of the Gentlemen who
now hold the Office of Judge in the two sections of the Colony.

9. If Your Lordship does not disapprove of what has been
suggested and will permit a Bill to be introduced for giving
effect to this arrangement I am sure that it will be received
with satisfaction both by the Legislative Council and the
Community. In this case it would enable me to save much time if
Your Lordship would kindly convey your sanction by telegraph.



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Confidential

My formal Despatch No 40 of this date will acquaint Your
Lordship with what I have ascertained to be the state of feeling
and affairs with respect to the Judicial system of the Colony
and the manner in which the Supreme Courts Ordinance 1869 was
passed through the Council. There is no doubt that it was
carried only by the exercise of the arbitrary power of the
Government, Official members voting contrary to their own
opinions, and in ignorance of the Despatch No 40, and passed,
even so, mainly in the confident expectation which the Council
had been led to entertain that Her Majesty's Government would
intervene to remove the difficulty in which the Community is
placed, by providing elsewhere for one or other of the two Chief
Justices whose conflicting claims have prevented any settlement
regarded by the Community as satisfactory.

2. If Your Lordship should be willing, and should have it in
your power to do so, there can be no doubt that to remove either
Mr Needham or Mr Begbie to some other appointment would be the
readiest mode of disposing of a very disagreeable difficulty
which the Community are determined not to consider settled by
the Act of 1869. There is much irritation upon the subject,
kept alive by the ridicule of our American neighbours. I have
been informed upon credible authority that on the occasion of the
recent visit to this Colony made by Mr Seward, the late
Secretary of State of the United States, on his way from Alaska,
the double judicial system and the existence of two Chief
Justices in the same Colony, with a handful of population, was
made by him the subject of pointed jest not intended to operate
to the praise of British Government or Institutions. Hemmed in
on all sides as we are by American territory and intimate as are
our intercourse and relations with the neighbouring settlements
feelings of loyalty to the parent State are not fostered by what
the Colonists are induced to regard as the exercise of arbitrary
power on the part of the Imperial Government regardless of their wishes.

3. In default of the removal of one of the present Judges the
desideratum seems to be that they should be constituted Judges
of the same Court by merger of the existing separate
jurisdictions. This appears to have been Mr Seymour's first
intention, which he was deterred from carrying into effect by
the jealousy and dissension which most improperly prevailed
between the two Judges on questions originally arising out of
the Union of the Colonies, and the erroneous view of the effect
of the British Columbia Act 1866 which was especially maintained
by Mr Justice Begbie.

4. I regret to be obliged to say that the personal variance
still continues; and the Community know that it entirely
neutralizes the intended effect of the ninth section of the Act
of 1869; for these Gentlemen who are not on good terms are not
likely voluntarily to seek the assistance of each other in the
administration of Justice. But I cannot bring myself to the
belief that the private quarrels of any Officials should be
allowed to frustrate arrangements for the public convenience.

5. The only resource appears to be to make it matter of public
duty that they should act together. I should hope that in this
case English Gentlemen will scarcely allow private pique or
personal difference to prevent the honest discharge of their
duties. And notwithstanding the objections which may be urged
to such an arrangement as is proposed I do not think they are
of equal weight with the advantages which may be derived from it.
Short of a removal of one of the present Judges it seems the
nearest approach to obtaining what the Community desires to
have—a single jurisdiction for the whole Colony—without which
it cannot be denied that much inconvenience and expense is suffered.

6. It has appeared to me to be my duty to lay the matter before
Your Lordship in the aspect which presents itself to me as an
impartial observer who had no concern with the misconceptions
and complications arising out of the Union of the Colonies. But
I should scarcely have thought myself at liberty to reopen a
subject apparently settled by the Ordinance of last Session were
it not that I have found that that Ordinance was passed in
ignorance of the Duke of Buckingham's Despatch No 40 of 1868,
while his Grace in the concluding paragraph distinctly stated
that it was by no means his desire "to preclude the Government
and the Legislature from adopting any other mode of dealing with
the existing anomalies which without injustice to existing
Officers seems to them to promise more satisfactory practical
results."



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Carnarvon to Rogers (Permanent Under-Secretary)

I have now made a complete search amongst my private papers and
unfortunately I can find nothing relative to the late Governor
Seymour's salary which it would be worth sending to Lord
Granville. That a mem: did exist on the subject I am
confident, but for the moment I am unable to find it.

After however refreshing my recollections of this subject I
may certainly state that the salary which I originally offered
to Mr Seymour was £5000—of which £4000 was to be drawn from B.
Columbia & £1000 from the Crown fund of the Colony of
V. Couver—that the salary was accepted by Mr Seymour but that
having regard to the financial difficulties of the Colony he
volunteered to sacrifice £1000 for the time.

I intimated indeed to him a doubt whether such a personal
sacrifice ought to be accepted from him and whether the
necessary reductions ought not to be sought for in some
different manner. But for the time the matter remained in
suspense and before circumstances allowed of it being brought to
a distinct conclusion, I had given up the seals of the Colonial Office.

I find indeed in one of Mr Seymour's private letters to me dated
19 Dec 1866 the following paragraph:

I am making sweeping reductions in order to restore public
confidence and I cannot conscientiously—for the present at all
events—draw the extra £1000 a year salary sanctioned by your Lordship.

I have nothing later or more explanatory than this, & in the
following March I ceased to be in Office.



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No. 112

I have received your Despatch No. 24 of the 8th November, and have
learnt with regret that you have had the misfortune to sustain a
compound fracture of the right leg.

I trust that you are rapidly progressing towards recovery and will
shortly be able to resume the active administration of your duties.



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No. 41

I have the honor to report that I have appointed, provisionally
and until Her Majesty's pleasure shall be known, Mr Francis
Jones Barnard and Mr Amor de Cosmos to be Members of the
Legislative Council; in deference to the wishes of the people
expressed respectively in the districts of Yale on the Mainland,
and Victoria Vancouver Island; and in the room of Mr Henry
Havelock resigned and Mr John Davie deceased.



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No. 42

In a Telegram to me before I left Newfoundland, in reply to an
application for leave to visit England, while declining to grant
it then, Your Lordship added that the question of leave might
arise later.

2. I should now be grateful if Your Lordship would grant me
leave for a short absence, say for two months, to take effect
after the termination of the Legislative Session in April or
May, in order to enable me to visit New York on a matter of
personal moment to myself.

*

I believe that no inconvenience is likely to arise
from my absence for so short a period at that time.

3. I think it very probable that on the termination of the
Session some confidential and personal communication with the
Government of Canada on the subject of Confederation will be
desirable if not necessary and it may be convenient that I
should visit Ottawa for this purpose when in that neighbourhood
on the Continent. Under these circumstances I would
respectfully request Your Lordship's permission to take the
short leave for which I ask upon full pay as being to some
extent on the service of the Colony. The Officer temporarily
administering the Government

**

need not be put to any expense
during my absence; but with Your Lordship's sanction he might be
allowed to draw half Salary from the Crown fund which is at the
absolute disposal of the Government for any purpose of which you approve.



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No. 43

I only a few days ago discovered accidentally that no reply has
yet been furnished to Your Lordship's Despatch to my
Predecessor, No 16 of 26th February last, enclosing
correspondence with the Postmaster General relative to the
postal arrangements between this Colony and the United States.
My attention was attracted to the subject on investigating what
appeared to me to be some very singular anomalies existing at present.

2. There can be no doubt that the terms offered by the
Postmaster General of the United States will be greatly to the
advantage of the Colony as compared with the prevailing system,
and I propose that if possible they should come into operation
from the 1st of April next, though no action shall be taken in
the matter until I receive further instructions from Your Lordship.

3. But there are two points upon which I should be glad to be
furnished with some further information.

4. It is not obvious why
Newspapers and printed matter
despatched from either side to the other should be subject to
the "domestic rates" of postage to and from the frontier in the
United States and the Colonies respectively, when
letters appear to be relieved from these charges.
The objection to their being retained is the difficulty which
they place in the way of entire prepayment when the senders
desire to relieve their correspondents from any charge for
postage. I find that the existing system requiring the payment
of the "domestic rates" in the United States on
Letters, had led to the practice on the part of this Government of
importing United States Postage Stamps for use in a British
Colony. And as this will no longer be necessary as regards
Letters under the proposed agreement, it would be very desirable
if the practice could also be avoided in respect of Newspapers
and printed matter. An increase of the rate of postage to be
paid and retained on either side would be preferable if it might
be substituted for an arrangement which prevents entire
prepayment, or compels the use of foreign Postage Stamps. If I
am not mistaken the ordinary internal postage on a letter from
San Francisco to New York is three cents. In the proposal of
the American Post Office this seems to have been doubled on
letters to British Columbia. Might not the same principle be
adopted with respect to Newspapers and printed matter?

5. I should be glad to be informed in the second place of the
effect which the proposed arrangement will have as regards
correspondence with Canada. Letters are now charged ten cents
for United States postage which in accordance with the practice
to which I have referred is paid by affixing United States
Stamps on posting them here. I confess I do not regard with
favor a practice which thus subordinates our postal arrangements
to the domestic regulations of a foreign Country. But as
postage on letters passing through to and from Canada will not
be received by the States either on despatch or delivery,
some agreement seems necessary on this score to complete the
arrangements.



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No. 113

I have to acknowledge the receipt of your Despatch of the 30th
October last, No. 19, in answer to mine of the 14th August, No. 84, with
reference to the Union of British Columbia with the Dominion of Canada a
copy of which, for the reasons you have stated, you thought it best at
once to make public.

I approve of your having published my Despatch, and I should wish
you to use your own judgment respecting the mode and time of bringing
the question before your Council, and not to suppose yourself bound to
bring forward any formal proposal unless you think that by so doing you
will promote the acceptance of the Union.

I have forwarded a copy of this Despatch to Sir John Young for his
information.



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No. 44

I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt, on 30th Instant of
your Despatches of the numbers and dates noted in the Margin

*

and to transmit the Schedules of those remaining unanswered.
.ra I have etc.



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No. 45

I have the honor to forward herewith four copies of Journals of
the last Session of the Legislature, as I do not observe a
record in my Office of any having been transmitted during the
current Year.



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Rose to Sandford (Assistant Under-Secretary)

I have the honor to acknowledge your communication of the 28th
instant, written by direction of Earl Granville, transmitting
copies of certain papers referring to the interests of British
Columbia, as they may be affected by a Treaty for Commercial
Reciprocity between the Dominion of Canada and the United States
of America, and requesting me to make such observations for His
Lordship's information, as may occur to me.

In reply, I have the honor to observe that from the tone of the
Presidents message, as well as from other indications, there
would appear to be little prospect of continuing, through
executive medium the negociations
which were begun last Summer between Canada and the United
States, and it would seem that any change having for object the
promotion of freer commercial intercourse between these two
Countries is more likely now to be effected by means of
Reciprocal Legislation rather than by Treaty. There do not
however seem any indications, at the present moment, that such
legislation is in the contemplation of Congress, and it may
therefore seem premature to trouble His Lordship with any
lengthy observations on the subject of the papers you have
transmitted, which were obviously written under the impression
that negociations were in actual progress. In view however, of
the possible resumption of negociations & considering it
important that all the Communities in British North America
should have an understanding with reference to each others
interests, as they may be affected by their future commercial
relations with the United States, I would suggest that copies of
the papers should be sent to the Governor General of Canada and
that the propriety of communicating to the Government of British
Columbia the proposals discussed at Washington in July last
should be submitted for the consideration of the Dominion Government.

It will be seen that both the Legislative Council of British
Columbia, and the Gentlemen on whose behalf Mr Hilmachen

signs, concur in the propriety of free interchange as respects the most
important classes of products enumerated in the former
Reciprocity Treaty and which were lately proposed to be embraced
in any future arrangements, as for example—lumber, coal, fish,
wheat, maize, hides &c &c.

Mr Hilmachen and his associates however, would seem to take
exception to the insertion of agricultural, dairy, and
horticultural productions, among the articles to be freely exchanged.

Earl Granville is doubtless aware that considerable importance
would be attached by Canada to the insertion of these articles.
Under the operation of the former Treaty, the free admission of
agricultural, and horticultural productions, & of animals &
other products, to the Markets of the United States was found to
be a very sensible advantage to the agricultural populations of Canada.

It would seem obvious that access to markets so extensive as
those of the United States could not be unattended with
corresponding advantage to the same class in British Columbia,
and I fail to see the soundness of the reasons on which Mr
Hilmachen, & those who share his opinions, rest their special
objections. Indeed I have little doubt that after a comparison
of view and a full understanding of the beneficial results to
Canada, in the past, from that portion of the Treaty, they will
be disposed to consider their fears groundless & to coincide
with the opinions expressed by the Council, not only in regard
to the articles of grain, but with reference to all
agricultural, horticultural and dairy productions. In almost
every other respect, the view expressed by the several interests
represented in these papers, would seem to be in accord with
those entertained in Canada on the subject of Reciprocity.

The interval of time, which will probably elapse before
negociations are in progress, may be usefully employed in a
comparison of views between the Government of the Dominion &
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Petition to Queen Victoria

We the Municipal Council of the City of New Westminster in Your
Majesty's Colony of British Columbia and the only representative
body on the mainland of the colony desire humbly and
respectfully to approach your Majesty and as British subjects
crave for justice and redress.

We would humbly represent That in the year 1858 His Excellency
Sir James Douglas the then Governor of British Columbia was
instructed by Your Majesty's Government to select and lay out a
suitable site of the Capital of British Columbia. This
important task was assigned to Colonel Moody an officer of
great experience and judgment who commanded the detachment of
Royal Engineers then stationed in the colony and also filled the
position of Lieutenant Governor and Chief Commissioner of Lands
and Works. Colonel Moody after careful surveys and mature
consideration selected the present site of New Westminster as
the most suitable for that of the capital of British Columbia
and his Views were endorsed and recommended to the most
favorable Consideration of your Majesty in a dispatch from His
Excellency Sir James Douglas dated the 4th February 1859.

Your Petitioners would represent that in consequence of these
recommendations from Colonel Moody and His Excellency Sir James
Douglas the Capital of British Columbia was decided to be upon
the present site of New Westminster and the enclosed Royal
Proclamation declaring the same was duly made public through the
Government Gazette and by other means throughout the whole
colony your Majesty graciously condescending to name the then
embryo city New Westminster.

Your Petitioners would further represent that simultaneously
with the Royal Proclamation there appeared a notice in the
Government Gazette advertising the sale by Government of town
lots in the established capital of British Columbia and that
previous to the time of sale the fact of New Westminster having
been established by Royal Proclamation as the Capital of the
Colony was set forth as an inducement to those who wished to
make a permanent home in the Colony to purchase property.

That a distinct promise was made by the Government agent at the
time of the sale of lots that the entire proceeds of such sale
should be devoted to the making and improving of streets and
roads in the City.

Trusting implicitly in the distinct pledges given by Royal
Proclamation having a stedfast faith in the honor and integrity
of the Government and appreciating the warm interest in our
future welfare which your Majesty condescended to show by
bestowing a name upon the Young city a large number of colonists
attended the sale and the lots then sold brought most exorbitant
prices when compared with the then market value of real estate
and still more so from the fact that most of such purchasers
were men who with but limited means invested in lots in the
future capital with a view to making that city their permanent
home and not for speculative purposes.

Your Petitioners need hardly state with what perseverance and
energy they have overcome the wild obstructions of nature, how
they have after an immense expenditure of time and money and in
many instances by the investment of their all made this city
worthy of the name of the Capital of British Columbia as they
feel confident that your Majesty has been made cognisant of
these facts by higher authorities as also of the unswerving
loyalty at all times manifested by its inhabitants towards your
Majesty's most gracious person.

Your Petitioners would further represent that in accordance with
the prayer of certain petitions signed by parties interested in
real estate upon Vancouvers Island and also by the Vote of a
Legislative Council not invested with full representative powers
the seat of Government has been removed from this city to an
outlying Island contrary to the wish and voice of the Majority
of the Mainland. The result of this removal has been ruin and
disaster to many a home. The labor and persevering energy of
the inhabitants of this city during the past few years has by
this unjust removal been rendered comparatively worthless at a
time when they were beginning to look forward to reaping the
benefits likely to accrue from the location of the seat of Government.

Your Memorialists would humbly represent that the fact of New
Westminster having been established by Royal Proclamation and
law the Capital of British Columbia formed the sole basis of
their investments that solely upon those representations made
upon the part of the Government they were induced to pay high
prices for the town lots at the Government sale and using the
language of His Excellency Frederick Seymour Governor of the
Colony in his message to the Legislative Council 27th March
1867, they considered "public faith and honor" so purely pledged
as to justify the immense subsequent outlay of time and money
which has been expended within the city limits. The pledge given
upon the part of the Government at the time of sale that the
proceeds should be appropriated for improving the town was never
fulfilled but the whole amount of Ninety thousand dollars was
absorbed in the general revenue of the colony and the citizens
were compelled to carry out these important works through the
Medium of a municipality and general taxation.

Your Memorialists would further represent that to carry out the
construction of roads streets and bridges within the city they
were upon the faith of the permanent location of the Capital
induced to borrow the sum of Fifteen thousand dollars the
interest of which was paid by a municipal tax upon the real
estate in the city and that in consequence of the unexpected
removal of the Capital from New Westminster real estate has
become nearly worthless as taxation even to pay the interest
upon this amount is rendered impossible and the Municipality
unjustly deprived of the Means to fulfil its pledges to their
fellow colonists.

Your Petitioners would humbly represent that the improvements
made in this city upon the faith of its being the capital of the
colony amount to over a million dollars and that all benefits
likely to be derived therefrom they consider they have been
unjustly deprived of by the removal of the seat of Government.

Your Petitioners therefore humbly approach the throne of your
Majesty asking for compensation in full for the Violation of
those pledges so distinctly given by Royal Proclamation and
further ask that the inducements held out to intending
purchasers by the Government be honorably fulfilled.

Should your Majesty be pleased to consider that the justice of
our claim be not fully established your Petitioners feeling
fully confident that a large and loyal community are suffering
under a gross wrong would humbly and earnestly ask that a
commission of inquiry be appointed to thoroughly investigate the
matter and in their hands your Petitioners are fully prepared to
leave the decision. And Your Petitioners as in duty bound will
ever pray.



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Governor Musgrave's request, by telegram, for leave of absence.
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[Separate]

It is requested that the enclosed copy of the St. Andrew's
Church Bill may be substituted for the Authenticated Copy which
accompanied Governor Seymour's despatch No. 44 of 19th March/69.



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[Separate]

It is requested that the enclosed copy of the Drawback's

Bill may be substituted for the authenticated copy which
accompanied Governor Seymour's despatch No. 56 of 24th March
1869.

