In Your Lordship's Despatch
Newfoundland N 13 of the
17 June,
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Paper not in the Dep.
acquainting me with my appointment as Governor of this
Colony it was stated that the Salary is at present £4,000 a
year, and £1,000 for travelling expenses,
but![Manuscript image Manuscript image](https://hcmc.uvic.ca/~coldesp/jpg_scans/jpg_thumbnail/co_60_36/co_60_36_00327v.jpg)
but that the amount of
this Salary was a matter of complaint in the Colony and you
would not be prepared to reject any application that it should
be reduced to £3,000 a year together with the Governor's actual
travelling expenses not exceeding £1,000.
2. On my arrival here I
have![Manuscript image Manuscript image](https://hcmc.uvic.ca/~coldesp/jpg_scans/jpg_thumbnail/co_60_36/co_60_36_00328r.jpg)
have ascertained that my predecessor
M Seymour received (£5,000) Five Thousand Pounds per annum,
besides his travelling expenses, of which the actual amount only
was drawn; for in addition to the amount of £4,000 under Act of
the local Legislature he drew the sum of £1,000 a year
from![Manuscript image Manuscript image](https://hcmc.uvic.ca/~coldesp/jpg_scans/jpg_thumbnail/co_60_36/co_60_36_00328v.jpg)
from the
Crown fund which has never been transferred to the control of
the local Legislature.
3. I find that
M Seymour considered himself authorised to
draw this amount by some sanction given by
Lord Carnarvon,
mentioned in
M Seymour's Despatch Separate of
the![Manuscript image Manuscript image](https://hcmc.uvic.ca/~coldesp/jpg_scans/jpg_thumbnail/co_60_36/co_60_36_00329r.jpg)
the
17 April
1867, but of which I see no other record.
I do not, however, regard myself as entitled to do the same
without reference to Your Lordship,
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Quite right.
though I should not have troubled you now upon the subject,
except that
M Hankin the Colonial Secretary is in doubt
whether he may be
paid![Manuscript image Manuscript image](https://hcmc.uvic.ca/~coldesp/jpg_scans/jpg_thumbnail/co_60_36/co_60_36_00329v.jpg)
paid the half of the allowance from the Crown
fund at the rate of £1,000 per annum for the period during
which he administered the government between the dates of
M
Seymour's death and my arrival.
M Hankin was presumably
entitled to half of the
emoluents![Manuscript image Manuscript image](https://hcmc.uvic.ca/~coldesp/jpg_scans/jpg_thumbnail/co_60_36/co_60_36_00330r.jpg)
emoluments of the Officer whom he
succeeded for a time,
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Yes.
and I would recommend that he at all
events should be allowed this amount, as it will not add to the
expenses of the Colony. As regards my own case, I believe from
what I learn that no objection would be taken by
the![Manuscript image Manuscript image](https://hcmc.uvic.ca/~coldesp/jpg_scans/jpg_thumbnail/co_60_36/co_60_36_00330v.jpg)
the Community
to my receiving the same amount of official emolument that
M
Seymour drew, as I shall probably be the last Governor of the
Colony under the existing establishment, for I think there is
reason for anticipating that at no distant period
arrangements![Manuscript image Manuscript image](https://hcmc.uvic.ca/~coldesp/jpg_scans/jpg_thumbnail/co_60_36/co_60_36_00331r.jpg)
arrangements
may be made for uniting
British Columbia with the Dominion. And
I would ask for Your Lordship's favorable consideration, upon
the ground that I find the expenses of living in this Colony are
so much greater than they are in
Newfoundlandthat![Manuscript image Manuscript image](https://hcmc.uvic.ca/~coldesp/jpg_scans/jpg_thumbnail/co_60_36/co_60_36_00331v.jpg)
that in fact
£4,000 is scarcely equal to more than half that amount in my
former residence. Servants wages are more than double—for
Female Servants three times—the rates in
Newfoundland or
Halifax; there is some difficulty in procuring Housemaids even
at Fifty Pounds Sterling
and![Manuscript image Manuscript image](https://hcmc.uvic.ca/~coldesp/jpg_scans/jpg_thumbnail/co_60_36/co_60_36_00332r.jpg)
and their board; while almost all other
prices and expenses are from fifty to one hundred per cent
greater than in the Eastern Provinces, and I have not the
advantage of allowances such as for Light and Fuel which was
enjoyed at
Newfoundland.
5. But, if Your Lordship
should![Manuscript image Manuscript image](https://hcmc.uvic.ca/~coldesp/jpg_scans/jpg_thumbnail/co_60_36/co_60_36_00332v.jpg)
should regard a reduction of the
Salary as necessary on any application which might be made, I
would respectfully submit that to reduce it to £4,000, of which
£1,000 might as heretofore be paid from the Crown fund, would be
as great a reduction as could be effected without
placing![Manuscript image Manuscript image](https://hcmc.uvic.ca/~coldesp/jpg_scans/jpg_thumbnail/co_60_36/co_60_36_00333r.jpg)
placing me at
a serious disadvantage compared with the position occupied by my
predecessor, or my own in my former Government.