Colonial Despatches
The colonial despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871
Public Offices document
Hamilton, George Alexander to Adderley, Charles Bowyer 16 May 1868, CO 60:34, no. 5102, 375.
Abstract
Public Offices document.
Minutes (3), Other documents (2).
Hamilton asks if British Columbia’s bill for £1500 drawn
for the maintenance of the Royal Marines on San Juan…should be accepted and paid.Cox’s minute suggests seeing
17/4519from Seymour as Seymour has given no advice. Cox’s minute further suggests a reply from Buckingham advising the acceptance and payment of the bill. Rogers’s minute recommends informing Seymour about Seymour’s
omission to advise.Blake’s minute recommends seeing
subsequent 19/6291.
Hamilton to Under-Secretary of State
Treasury Chambers
16 May 1868
Sir,
I am desired by the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's
Treasury to acquaint you that a Bill for £1500 drawn by the
Treasurer of B. Columbia for the maintenance of the Royal
Marines on San Juan, has been left at the Office of the
Paymaster-General, and I am to request that you will move the
Secretary of State to inform My Lords whether this Bill should
be accepted and paid.
Minutes by CO staff
It is the usual Bill on account of the Marines at San Juan.
Answer that no advice has been recd from the Govr but that
as the Duke of Buckingham assumes that it is drawn on account
of the Marines in the usual course, his Grace is of opinion that it
may be accepted & paid.
Other documents included in the file
Draft reply, Buckingham to Seymour, No. 29, 21 May 1868 informing Seymour that the bill drawn for the royal marines on San Juan Island was authorized to be paid and reprimanding Seymour for failing to provide “regular notice” for the bill, despite an earlier guarantee
to provide notice to the Colonial Office.
Rogers to Secretary to the Treasury, 22 May 1868, advising
that although no advice had been received from the Governor,
the bill could be accepted and drawn in the usual manner.