Colonial Despatches
The colonial despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871
Despatch to London
Seymour, Frederick to Grenville, Richard 6 August 1868, CO 60:33, no. 9934, 214.
Abstract
Despatch to London.
Minutes (2), Enclosures (untranscribed) (2).
Seymour encloses
accounts…by the Acting Colonial Secretary and the Registrar General of Titles under the Homestead Ordinancedescribing the
the operation of the Homestead Ordinancein British Columbia. Holland minutes that the report on
the operation of the Homestead Ordinance is satisfactory.
No. 93
Victoria
6th August 1868
My Lord Duke,
In Your Grace's despatch No. 82 of 14th November 1867, I am
directed carefully to watch the operation of the HomesteadOrdinance
Ordinance with a view to its amendment should it act as a
protection to fraud.
Ordinance with a view to its amendment should it act as a
protection to fraud.
2. I have now the honor to enclose accounts of the working of
the Ordinance, furnished me by the Acting Colonial Secretary and
the Registrar General of Titles under the Homestead Ordinance.
Both these Officers bear testimony favorable to the ordinance.
I entirely agree with them.
3. I
3. I do not know that the Homestead Act has brought many people
into the Colony, but I am certain that it has had the effect of
retaining some.
Minutes by CO staff
Documents enclosed with the main document (not transcribed)
Minute, W.A.G. Young, Acting Colonial Secretary, 5 August 1868,
reporting favourably on the Homestead Ordinance.
Minute, E. Graham Alston, Registrar General of Titles, 4
August 1868, noting the advantages of the ordinance and the favourable
response since passage.