Colonial Despatches
The colonial despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871
Despatch to London
Birch, Arthur Nonus to Cardwell, Edward 17 April 1866, CO 60:24, no. 5777, 220.
Abstract
Birch, Arthur Nonus to Cardwell, Edward 17 April 1866, CO 60:24, no. 5777, 220.
Despatch to London.
Minutes (2), Enclosures (untranscribed) (1), Other documents (1).
No. 32
17th April 1866
Sir,
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. 16. An Ordinance respecting the conversion ofSterling
Sterling
Money into Decimal Currency in certain cases.
I add the Report of the Attorney General.
Sterling
Money into Decimal Currency in certain cases.
I add the Report of the Attorney General.
Minutes by CO staff
To Treasury.
[I do not quite understand this. Is a person who
has to pay 13d sterling to pay 26 or 27 cents.
Again if an Imperial Act extending to the Colony (not
imputed or adopted) requires payment of 1£ sterling, it is
not competent to the
Coll Legre to define what 1£
sterling shall mean. To do this wd be (if anything was
done at all) to alter the effect of the Imperial Law.]
Coll Legre to define what 1£
sterling shall mean. To do this wd be (if anything was
done at all) to alter the effect of the Imperial Law.]
Documents enclosed with the main document (not transcribed)
H.P.P. Crease, Attorney General, to Officer Administering the
Government, 8 April 1866, reporting on the ordinance as per despatch.
Other documents included in the file
Elliot to Secretary to the Treasury, 29 June 1866, forwarding
copy of the despatch and ordinance for consideration.