Colonial Despatches
The colonial despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871
Despatch to London
Seymour, Frederick to Grenville, Richard 7 September 1867, CO 60:29, no. 10814, 65.
Abstract
Despatch to London.
Minutes (4), Enclosures (untranscribed) (1), Other documents (4).
Seymour forwards
No 21. An Ordinance to render uniform the laws establishing a decimal system of Accounts and regulating the Currency of the Colonyand the corresponding
Attorney General's report.Holland’s minute summarizes ordinance 21, describes the ordinance’s effect on the colony, and advises sanctioning the ordinance. Rogers minutes that the Treasury should see the ordinance first before sanctioning. Included documents describe correspondence on British Columbia’s currency.
No. 104
Victoria
7th September 1867
My Lord Duke,
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 21
No 21. An Ordinance to render uniform the laws establishing
a decimal system of Accounts and regulating the Currency of the Colony.
The Attorney General's report is enclosed.
No 21. An Ordinance to render uniform the laws establishing
a decimal system of Accounts and regulating the Currency of the Colony.
The Attorney General's report is enclosed.
Minutes by CO staff
Sir. F. Rogers
Currency Ordinance. This Ordinance applies to the whole of the Colony the B. Columbia Ordinances of 1865 & 1866 with the exception that no mention is made of the florin which in the Ordinance of 1865 (SS 8) was made a legal tender for 50 cents. Sanction.
Currency Ordinance. This Ordinance applies to the whole of the Colony the B. Columbia Ordinances of 1865 & 1866 with the exception that no mention is made of the florin which in the Ordinance of 1865 (SS 8) was made a legal tender for 50 cents. Sanction.
HTH
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Documents enclosed with the main document (not transcribed)
H.P.P. Crease, Attorney General, to Seymour, 3 July 1867,
reporting on the ordinance as per despatch.
Other documents included in the file
Rogers to Secretary to the Treasury, 11 November 1867,
forwarding copy of the ordinance and report for consideration.
Elliot to Secretary to the Treasury, 8 June 1868, requesting
reply to previous correspondence concerning the currency of
British Columbia.
V. Delves Broughton, Treasury, to Cox, 3 December 1868,
requesting duplicates of letters previously sent concerning the
currency of British Columbia.
Minutes by CO staff
Other documents included in the file
*
Rogers to Treasury, 25 March 1869, requesting reply to earlier
correspondence concerning the currency of British Columbia.