Colonial Despatches
The colonial despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871
Public Offices document
Peel, Frederick to Rogers, Frederic 3 July 1862, CO 60:14, no. 6569, 265.
Abstract
Public Offices document.
Minutes (2), Enclosures (untranscribed) (2), Other documents (1).
Peel writes Rogers to request that Newcastle address questions raised by
The Commissioners of Auditconcerning
the accounts for British Columbia to 31 December 1859.
Peel to Rogers (Permanent Under-Secretary)
Treasury Chambers
3 July 1862
I am commanded by The Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's
Treasury to transmit Copy of a Report received from The Commissioners
of Audit, dated 16th May, having reference to the accounts for
British Columbia to 31 December 1859, with Copies of Statements
A, B, and C, and to request you will move the Duke of Newcastle to
favor their Lordships with his opinion whether, under the circumstances
stated by The Commissioners of Audit, the several fragments to which
attention is drawn should be allowed.
With regard to the Military Expenditure from September 1858 to
June 1859, amounting to Seventeen thousand and forty six pounds,
three shillings and two pence (£17,046.3.2), the particulars of which are
given in Statement C, and which expenditure was reserved "as Subject to
allowance or disallowance hereafter by Her Majesty's Government,"
it appears to their Lordships that the same forms a portion of the
General Military andother
other Expenditure which is to be adjusted between
the Imperial and Colonial Governments in accordance with the
arrangements which formed the subject of Mr Fortescue's letter
of 22nd April and the reply of this Board of 16th Ulto.
other Expenditure which is to be adjusted between
the Imperial and Colonial Governments in accordance with the
arrangements which formed the subject of Mr Fortescue's letter
of 22nd April and the reply of this Board of 16th Ulto.
It is requested that the State of Account may be returned to
this Department.
Minutes by CO staff
Mr Elliot
Under the circes I shd say that the items mentioned in the statement A and B must be allowed: and the Commrs of Audit are, I am disposed to think, of that opinion.
Under the circes I shd say that the items mentioned in the statement A and B must be allowed: and the Commrs of Audit are, I am disposed to think, of that opinion.
Upon the account C which relates to the Military expre
you are now more competent to speak than I am.
ABd
4 July
On A and B I agree with Mr Blackwood. I should tell
the Treasury that the Duke of Newcastle would recommend that the
several payments specified in those schedules should be allowed:
and with regard to C, I would suggest to the Treasury that the
several payments made to the Royal Engineers should be passed
in the accounts, leaving them to be hereafter adjusted in
accordance with the arrangement to which Mr Peel adverts for
distributing between the Colony and this Country the expenses
of the Royal Engineers employed on Public Works.
the Treasury that the Duke of Newcastle would recommend that the
several payments specified in those schedules should be allowed:
and with regard to C, I would suggest to the Treasury that the
several payments made to the Royal Engineers should be passed
in the accounts, leaving them to be hereafter adjusted in
accordance with the arrangement to which Mr Peel adverts for
distributing between the Colony and this Country the expenses
of the Royal Engineers employed on Public Works.
Other documents included in the file
Documents enclosed with the main document (not transcribed)
Edward Romilly and R. Vaughan Davis, Audit Office, to Treasury,
16 May 1862, reporting on the disposition of the accounts of British
Columbia, as per despatch, and enclosing a statement of particulars.
Statement as noted above, in three sections marked A, B and C.