Colonial Despatches
The colonial despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871
Public Offices document
Farrer, Thomas Henry to Adderley, Charles Bowyer 11 February 1867, CO 60:31, no. 1501, 3.
Abstract
Public Offices document.
Minutes (5), Other documents (2).
Regarding supplies requisitioned in 1865 and stored at lighthouses on Vancouver Island, on behalf of the Board of Trade, Farrer asks for payment for these supplies
before the end of the financial yearand suggests a method to insure this deadline is met. Blackwood minutes the options available to repay this debt given the time constraint. Carnarvon minutes his approval of having the
Crown Agentspay this debt directly and then prohibiting any agents taking actions for Vancouver Island requiring funds
from the Colonial Government.Included documents describe the Colonial Office staff contacting the Board of Trade and
Crown Agentsregarding payment for supplies for lighthouses on Vancouver Island.
Farrer to Under-Secretary of State
I am directed by the Board of Trade to acknowledge your letter
of the 4th Instant, stating that the Governor of British Columbia,
has been requested to cause repayment to be made of the sum of
£212.16.10, incurred by the Board of Trade for the supply of Stores
for the Lighthouses in Vancouvers Island.
The Board of Trade direct me to observe that these stores
were supplied on the requisitions to theCrown
Crown Agents of the
Colonies accompanying your letters of the 15th July 1865 and
12th June last, and that the expenses incurred have been advanced
out of the vote for Lighthouses abroad.
Crown Agents of the
Colonies accompanying your letters of the 15th July 1865 and
12th June last, and that the expenses incurred have been advanced
out of the vote for Lighthouses abroad.
It is very desirable that the amount advanced, should be repaid
to the vote before the end of the financial year, and I am
therefore to suggest that the Crown Agents for the Colonies may
be instructed to pay the sum advanced (£212.16.10) as has hitherto
been done in former cases, for expenses incurred for
the Lighthouses in Vancouvers Island.
Minutes by CO staff
Mr Elliot
The financial year ends, as you know, on the 31 March next. It is clear that the funds for paying this claim cannot be procured from V. Couver Island by that time. It is also certain that the Crown Agents have no money in hand belonging to V.C.I. out of which this claim can be satisfied. We must, in this case, either instruct the Agents to pay the debt out of other monies, or apply to the Treasury. I think the first alternative is the preferable one.
The financial year ends, as you know, on the 31 March next. It is clear that the funds for paying this claim cannot be procured from V. Couver Island by that time. It is also certain that the Crown Agents have no money in hand belonging to V.C.I. out of which this claim can be satisfied. We must, in this case, either instruct the Agents to pay the debt out of other monies, or apply to the Treasury. I think the first alternative is the preferable one.
ABd
13 Feby
Tell the Crown Agents to pay; and then send out peremptory orders
for remitting to them the aggregate amount of the advances made by
them for Vancouver, and state that until that money shall be received,
the Crown Agents will be prohibited from undertaking any Vancouver
servicesfor
for which requisitions may come from the Colonial Government?
for which requisitions may come from the Colonial Government?
Other documents included in the file
Colonial Office to Board of Trade, 14 March 1867, stating the Crown
Agents had been instructed to pay the debt.
Colonial Office to Crown Agents, 14 March 1867, forwarding copy
of the lighthouse account and requesting payment of same.
Minutes by CO staff
It is important to the Board of Trade to get this money at once.
The Governor requested that the Agents should procure the supplies,
so that we may with propriety instruct them to pay the cost.