Colonial Despatches
The colonial despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871
Despatch from London
Grenville, Richard to Seymour, Frederick 7 December 1868, NAC RG7:G8C/15, 526.
Abstract
Despatch from London.
Other documents (1), Marginalia (1).
Buckingham approves Seymour’s
Estimates of Revenue and Expenditure for 1868and conveys
Her Majesty's gracious confirmation and allowance ofthe ordinance
entitledBuckingham transmits a despatchAn Ordinance to appropriate the sum of $358,923.5 out of the general revenue of [British Columbia] for the contingent service of the year 1868.
addressed to the Governor of the Straits Settlementsrelating the preferred form
of Estimates and financial Returns for the future.
No. 105
7 December 1868
Sir,
I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatches of
the numbers and dates noted in the Margin
enclosing Returns exhibiting the financial condition of British
Columbia.
No. 102—18 Aug: 68
No. 105—22 Aug: "
No. 105—22 Aug: "
I have also received your despatch No. 72 ofthe
the 28 July enclosing
the Estimates of Revenue and Expenditure for 1868, and an Ordinance No.
12, 1 May 1868 passed by the Legislative Council and entitled "An
Ordinance to appropriate the sum of $358,923.5 out of the general
revenue of the Colony for the contingent service of the year 1868."
the 28 July enclosing
the Estimates of Revenue and Expenditure for 1868, and an Ordinance No.
12, 1 May 1868 passed by the Legislative Council and entitled "An
Ordinance to appropriate the sum of $358,923.5 out of the general
revenue of the Colony for the contingent service of the year 1868."
I have to express my approval of those Estimates and to convey to
you Her Majesty's gracious confirmation andallowance
allowance of the Ordinance
No. 12 of 1868 making provision for expenditure which they involve.
allowance of the Ordinance
No. 12 of 1868 making provision for expenditure which they involve.
I transmit to you for your guidance and for adoption so far as it
is applicable to British Columbia a printed copy of a despatch addressed
to the Governor of the Straits Settlements laying down the rules which
are to be followed in that Colony in the preparation ofEstimates
Estimates and
financial Returns for the future.
Estimates and
financial Returns for the future.
Other documents included in the file
Printed copy of a despatch to the Governor of the Straits Settlements stating the
rules to be followed there in preparation of Estimates and Financial Returns for the
future.