Colonial Despatches
The colonial despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871
Despatch to London
Seymour, Frederick to Grenville, Richard 1 July 1867, CO 60:28, no. 8553, 164.
Abstract
Despatch to London.
Minutes (2), Enclosures (untranscribed) (2), Other documents (1).
Seymour forwards a letter from the President of the Mechanics Institute of Victoria
offering…to pay the expensesfor shipping the complete set of publications from the Commissioners of Patents to British Columbia. Seymour remarks that, while the publications will be held at the Mechanics Institute, the publications will be the property of the
local Government.Elliot’s minute confirms that Cox should ask if the Crown Agents have received the Commissioners of Patents’s publications.
No. 78
Victoria
1st July 1867
My Lord Duke,
I have the honor to call Your Grace's attention to Mr
Secretary Cardwell's despatch, Vancouver Island, No. 11 of the
26th March 1866, stating that the Commissioners of Patentshad
had granted to the Colonial Government a complete set of their
publications.
had granted to the Colonial Government a complete set of their
publications.
2. It was intended by my predecessor that these books
should, though remaining the property of the Government, be
deposited at the Mechanics Institute of Victoria. I have now the
honor to forward Copy of a letter from the President offering
on behalf of that Institution to pay the expenses of the conveyance
of the publicationsto
to the Colony. I should be glad if his request
could be complied with. The works will be reserved as the property
of the local Government and should it ever be deemed requisite to
withdraw them from the Mechanics Institute the amount expended by
the Board of Trade for freight will be repaid to them.
to the Colony. I should be glad if his request
could be complied with. The works will be reserved as the property
of the local Government and should it ever be deemed requisite to
withdraw them from the Mechanics Institute the amount expended by
the Board of Trade for freight will be repaid to them.
Minutes by CO staff
Mr Elliot
Ask the Crown Agents whether they have recd the publications in question from the Comrs—see letter to them of 27 March 1866.
Ask the Crown Agents whether they have recd the publications in question from the Comrs—see letter to them of 27 March 1866.
CC
2 Sept
Documents enclosed with the main document (not transcribed)
E. Graham Alston, President, Mechanics Institute, to Colonial
Secretary, 13 May 1867, asking whether advice had been received on
the whereabouts of the publications promised nearly eighteen months
previously.
Other documents included in the file
