Colonial Despatches
The colonial despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871
Public Offices document
Lennox, Henry Gordon to Adderley, Charles Bowyer 22 June 1868, CO 60:34, no. 6609, 26.
Abstract
Public Offices document.
Minutes (1), Other documents (2).
Lennox to Under-Secretary of State
In reply to your Letter of the 16th Instant transmitting a
Copy of a Letter from Mr J. Scott Tucker relative to the
desirability of constructing a Hydraulic Lift at Vancouvers
Island; I am commanded by my Lords Commissioners ofthe
the
Admiralty to acquaint you, for the information of the Secretary
of State for the Colonies, that, should a company be formed and
the requisite Capital be subscribed for the formation of a
Hydraulic Lift in the Harbour of Esquimalt, my Lords will be
prepared to recommend to the Treasury the application in favour
of the undertaking,of
of the provisions of the "Colonial Docks
Loans Act."
the
Admiralty to acquaint you, for the information of the Secretary
of State for the Colonies, that, should a company be formed and
the requisite Capital be subscribed for the formation of a
Hydraulic Lift in the Harbour of Esquimalt, my Lords will be
prepared to recommend to the Treasury the application in favour
of the undertaking,of
of the provisions of the "Colonial Docks
Loans Act."
Minutes by CO staff
Other documents included in the file
Adderley to J. Scott Tucker, British Columbia Graving Dock Co.,
30 June 1868, advising the Admiralty would be prepared to
recommend an application to Treasury as per despatch.
Draft reply, Buckingham to Seymour, No. 42, 30 June 1868 transmitting Tucker’s letter stating a desire to build a hydraulic lift on Vancouver Island, with help from the British government, and correspondence between the Colonial Office and the Admiralty regarding Tucker’s proposal.