Colonial Despatches
The colonial despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871
Public Offices document
Sargeaunt, William Charles to Rogers, Frederic 4 September 1867, CO 60:30, no. 8749, 104.
Abstract
Public Offices document.
Minutes (4), Enclosures (untranscribed) (1), Other documents (1).
Sargeaunt informs the Colonial Office that the Crown Agents did not receive a requisition
made by the Government of Vancouver Island in the year 1865.Sargeaunt asks if
any such requisition is on record at the Colonial Office.Robinson’s minute describes the content of the requisition, which refers to stores for Vancouver Island lighthouses, and suggests how to respond to Sargeaunt. Elliot’s minute confirms Robinson’s suggestion. Included documents are the requisition from British Columbia and correspondence to the Board of Trade confirming that the Board continues to ship supplies to British Columbia.
Sargeaunt to Rogers (Permanent Under-Secretary)
The requisition referred to in the enclosed copy of a letter from
the Colonial Secretary of British Columbia, as having been made by
the Government of Vancouver Island in the year 1865 and only partially
complied with was not forwarded to this Office. As "the remainder
of the Stores" are stated to be pressingly required and delay may
occasion not only inconvenience but risk to the Shipping resorting
to that Island, the Crown Agents would be glad to be informed whether
anysuch
such requisition is on record at the Colonial Office, if not,
then there will be no alternative but to write to British Columbia
for further information as to the Stores still required.
such requisition is on record at the Colonial Office, if not,
then there will be no alternative but to write to British Columbia
for further information as to the Stores still required.
Minutes by CO staff
Mr Elliot
The Crown Agents as well as the Governor should I think have been specially told in 1865 that the Bd of Trade desired to continue to supply stores for the Lighthouses at Vancouver's Is.
The Crown Agents as well as the Governor should I think have been specially told in 1865 that the Bd of Trade desired to continue to supply stores for the Lighthouses at Vancouver's Is.
The requisition to which this letter refers although addressed by
the Coll Secy to the Crown Agents was in accordance with their
Lordships desire sent to the Bd of Trade, & the Agents have
apparently never known of its existence.
Write to
Board of Trade
& ask whether & if so at what date the requisition was complied with
& when the answer is received inform the Crown Agents & the
Governor how the matter stands.
Board of Trade
& ask whether & if so at what date the requisition was complied with
& when the answer is received inform the Crown Agents & the
Governor how the matter stands.
WR
5 Sept 67
& take care that the Agents are now (& the Governor if not done
already, which I do not quite understand) informed, as Mr
Robinson justly suggests, of the desire of the Bd of Trade
to continue to make such supplies personally. Draft at once.
TFE
9/9
Documents enclosed with the main document (not transcribed)
A.N. Birch, Colonial Secretary, to Crown Agents, 9 July
1867, requesting remainder of ordered stores be shipped.
Other documents included in the file
Rogers to Board of Trade, 13 September 1867, forwarding copy of
letter from Birch and asking whether the articles
specified had been shipped to the colony.
