Colonial Despatches
The colonial despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871
Correspondence (private letter)
Barfield, Samuel to Grenville, Richard 11 June 1867, CO 60:31, no. 5596, 190.
Abstract
Correspondence (private letter).
Minutes (2), Other documents (2).
Barfield asks if Seymour now has the ability to
make terms term, and execute a grant toany interested parties, after the
Conveyance of the Island to the Crown,and further asks for a reply on whether Barfield’s employer may
develope the resources of the District of Koskeemo,after Seymour is more familiar with Vancouver Island. Elliot minutes how to respond to Barfield and that Seymour should receive copies of Barfield’s enquires and the Colonial Office’s replies.
Barfield to Buckingham
4 Plowden Buildings
Temple E.C.
11th June 1867
Temple E.C.
My Lord Duke,
I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of Copies of a
Despatch from Governor Seymour to Lord Carnarvon, and Report from the
late Surveyor General of the Island of Vancouver, transmitted to me
by your Grace's direction on the 16th ultimo.
Will you allow me now to enquire whether I may correctly assume
that the Deed of Conveyance of the Island to the Crown has been
forwarded to the Colony, and whether the Governor alone is now in a
position to make terms with, and execute a grant to, the parties
interested?
From the tenor of Governor Seymour's despatch it would appear
that he intends to make himself better acquainted with the Island and
its affairs generally, the result
of which he will probably
communicate to your Grace, and so soon as his further Report upon my
application of the 7th of December last has been received, I shall
feel much obliged by a definite reply to the enquiries I was desired
to make by the Gentlemen whose object is to develope the resources of
the District of Koskeemo previously referred to.
of which he will probably
communicate to your Grace, and so soon as his further Report upon my
application of the 7th of December last has been received, I shall
feel much obliged by a definite reply to the enquiries I was desired
to make by the Gentlemen whose object is to develope the resources of
the District of Koskeemo previously referred to.
To his Grace
The Duke of Buckingham & Chandos
The Duke of Buckingham & Chandos
Minutes by CO staff
And I suppose he may also be told that the Govr has full
power to execute Grants of Land?
power to execute Grants of Land?
CC
12 June
I should tell him that the Deed has been forwarded, and that the
Governor possesses the requisite power for executing grants of land
subject to the rules and regulations of the Colony or to such
instructions as he may from time to time receive from the Secy of
State.
I shd send out to the Govr, for his infn, Copies of
the letter & of the answer. It will keep him in mind.
Drafts may be prepared.
TFE
13 June
Other documents included in the file
Draft reply, Buckingham to Seymour, No. 36, 15 June 1867 informing Seymour of Barfield’s further enquires about developing land on “North West Coast of Vancouver Island.”