Colonial Despatches
The colonial despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871
Despatch from London
Grenville, Richard to Seymour, Frederick 7 July 1868, NAC RG7:G8C/15, 235.
Abstract
Despatch from London.
Buckingham informs Seymour that the Treasury
will not objectto the government of British Columbia
drawing Bills on the Paymaster General half yearly, in advance, for sums not exceeding £150,for
paying Imperial pensioners resident in British Columbia.Buckingham describes additional conditions under which the Treasury will not object to the stated arrangement for paying imperial pensioners.
No. 44
7 July 1868
Sir,
I have to acknowledge the receipt of your Despatch No. 27 of the
3rd of April, respecting the loss which the Colony sustains by the
present mode of paying Imperial pensioners resident in British Columbia.
In reply I have to inform you that the LordsCommissioners
Commissioners of the
Treasury to whom your Despatch was referred have stated that they will
not object to your Government drawing Bills on the Paymaster General
half yearly, in advance, for sums not exceeding £150 each on account of
these pensioners. But in this case account and vouchers for the
expenditure of the money so drawn must be sent to this Country every
half year.
Commissioners of the
Treasury to whom your Despatch was referred have stated that they will
not object to your Government drawing Bills on the Paymaster General
half yearly, in advance, for sums not exceeding £150 each on account of
these pensioners. But in this case account and vouchers for the
expenditure of the money so drawn must be sent to this Country every
half year.