Colonial Despatches
The colonial despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871
Despatch to London
Seymour, Frederick to
Grenville, Richard 3 June 1868, CO 60:32, no. 7425, 447.
Abstract
Despatch to London.
Minutes (6), Enclosures (untranscribed) (2).
Seymour forwards “an Ordinance…entitled; No. 5. An Ordinance to confirm certain Titles to
Real Property in Vancouver Island.” Holland’s minute summarizes the forwarded ordinance and recommends sending the ordinance
to the Land Board. Minutes by Rogers and Adderley discuss particular phrases in the ordinance and potential problems. Buckingham minutes that the ordinance will be sanctioned. The included document is an ordinance
report from British Columbia’s attorney general.
No. 55
Victoria
3rd June 1868
My Lord Duke,
I have the honor to forward an Authenticated and two plain
Copies of an Ordinance of the recent Session of the Legislature
of this Colony, entitled;
No. 5. An Ordinanceto
to confirm certain Titles to Real Property
in Vancouver Island.
to confirm certain Titles to Real Property
in Vancouver Island.
2. The Attorney General sees no reason why this simple measure
should not be allowed, and I concur with him.
Minutes by CO staff
Sir F. Rogers
Hudsons Bay Confirmatory Ordinance. There seems no objection to this Ordce which only confirms titles granted by the Hudsons Bay Co before 1860. But I think I wd send it to the Land Board.
Hudsons Bay Confirmatory Ordinance. There seems no objection to this Ordce which only confirms titles granted by the Hudsons Bay Co before 1860. But I think I wd send it to the Land Board.
HTH
16/7
The words seem to me rather large—e.g. what if it
appears that the HBC have granted the same land to two persons.
Both grants are validated. All the Estate then in the [Cr.?]
of the HBC shd pass by the grant but nothing more.
FR
17/7
Documents enclosed with the main document (not transcribed)
Three printed copies of ordinance not on microfilm.
H.P.P. Crease, Attorney General, to Seymour, 25 May 1868,
reporting on the ordinance as per despatch.