Colonial Despatches
The colonial despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871
Public Offices document
Julyan, Penrose Goodchild to Elliot, Thomas Frederick 28 September 1868, CO 60:34, no. 10638, 86.
Abstract
Public Offices document.
Minutes (2), Other documents (1).
Julyan asks the Colonial Office where to send the books, procured for the examination of masters and mates. Elliot’s minute discusses how the Crown Agents should send the books to British Columbia.
Julyan to Elliot (Assistant Under-Secretary)
Referring to your letter of the 26th instant may I request
you will be good enough to inform me whether the Crown Agents
are to forward the Books, therein referred to, to British
Columbia or to the Colonial Office.
Minutes by CO staff
Instruct the Crown Agents that if there are the means of sending
it safely as a parcel, it will be better to adopt that mode of
transmission than to incur the expense of sending these booksin
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the Govt bags to be charged for as if they were letters.
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the Govt bags to be charged for as if they were letters.
At once.
TFE
30 Sep
Other documents included in the file
Elliot to Crown Agents, 3 October 1868, requesting that the
books be sent to British Columbia as a parcel, if possible.