Colonial Despatches
The colonial despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871
Despatch from London
Grenville, Richard to Seymour, Frederick 4 December 1868, NAC RG7:G8C/15, 524.
Abstract
Despatch from London.
Buckingham informs Seymour that Seymour has the power to grant land on Vancouver Island, following the union of the two colonies.
No. 104
Downing Street
4 December 1868
Sir,
I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your Despatch No.
113 of the 7th September expressing a doubt whether you have power to
make grants in the name of the Crown for lands sold in Vancouvers Island
and requesting my opinion on the subject.
In
In reply I have to inform you that you had power by your Commission
to make grants of land in British Columbia and that the Act uniting
Vancouvers Island with British Columbia (29 and 30 Vict: C.67) gives you
the same powers in Vancouvers Island as you had in British Columbia.
There is nothing in the Deed of reconveyance affecting that power
which you undoubtedly possess.