Colonial Despatches
The colonial despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871
Public Offices document
Lugard, Edward to Adderley, Charles Bowyer 26 October 1868, CO 60:34, no. 11727, 461.
Abstract
Public Offices document.
Minutes (1), Enclosures (untranscribed) (1), Other documents (2), Marginalia (1).
Lugard transmits Wakefield’s pension documents and requests that
the necessary instructions for the payment of [Wakefield's] pension may be issued to the Secretary [of] the Government.Cox’s minute suggests instructing Seymour to authorize payment for Wakefield’s pension and informing the War Office that Seymour was contacted.
Lugard to Under-Secretary of State
With reference to your letter dated the 5th July 1865 and the
reply thereto from this Office of the 31st August following,
regarding the mode of paying Pensioners residing in British
Columbia: I am directed by Secretary Sir John Pakington to
transmit to you the Pension Documents of the man noted in the margin
and to request that the necessary instructions for the payment
of his pension may be issued to the Secretary to the Government.
Minutes by CO staff
Documents enclosed with the main document (not transcribed)
"Descriptive Return of a Discharged Marine (Benjamin Wakefield)
granted a Pension by the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty,"
signed by C.C. Hutchins, 2 October 1868.
Other documents included in the file
Rogers to Under-Secretary for War, 4 November 1868,
stating that their letter had been forwarded to the governor.
Draft reply, Buckingham to Seymour, No. 98, 4 November 1868 transmitting the War Office’s letter regarding paying Wakefield’s pension.