Colonial Despatches
The colonial despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871
Public Offices document
Trevelyan, Charles Edward to Merivale, Herman 29 December 1858, CO 60:2, no. 13275, 361.
Abstract
Public Offices document.
Minutes (2), Enclosures (untranscribed) (1), Other documents (1).
Trevelyan transmits to the CO forms from the Commissioners of Audit to be adopted in British Columbia
as soon as the Financial arrangements of the Colony may admit.
The minutes send to Douglas
at once.
Enclosed is a draft from Lytton to Douglas with instructions from the Treasury; and the Audit Office to the Treasury transmitting available forms including forms of authorities from the Governor to
the Treasurer for issuing money and defraying expenditures.
Trevelyan to Merivale (Permanent Under-Secretary)
Treasury Chambers
29 December 1858
Sir,
With further reference to your letter of the 6th
Instant,
1
I am directed by the Lords Commissoners of Her Majesty's Treasury to
transmit herewith Copy of a letter from the Commissioners of Audit with
the enclosed Forms, and I am to request that you will move Sir E.B. Lytton to forward the same to the Governor of British Columbia,
with instructions to him to adopt the Forms so soon as the
Financial arrangements of the Colony may admit.
Minutes by CO staff
At once.
HM
Jan 1
Documents enclosed with the main document (not transcribed)
Edward Romilly, Henry Arbuthnot, and R. Vaughan Davis, Audit
Office, to Treasury, 22 December 1858, transmitting available forms
including Forms of Authorities from the governor to the treasurer for
issuing money and defraying expenditures.
Footnotes
- CO-Tre, 6 Dec 58, treasury forms FIND CO-Tre, 6 Dec 58, re treasury forms.