Colonial Despatches
The colonial despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871
Despatch from London
Leveson-Gower, Granville George to Seymour, Frederick 17 February 1869, NAC RG7:G8C/16, 60.
Abstract
Despatch from London.
Granville discusses the salaries that Young and Hankin should receive for the positions of acting colonial secretary and colonial secretary
of British Columbia, following Hankin’s appointment to the position.
No. 15
17 February 1869
Sir,
I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your Despatch No. 131
of the 12th December on the subject of Mr. Hankin's claim to half Salary
from the date of his embarkation to British Columbia.
Under the circumstances of Mr. Young's appointment itappears
appears to me
that he was entitled to expect that he would continue to receive full
pay as Colonial Secretary until you had been given notice that another
arrangement was to be made, that is to say in the present instance until
the 21st November. From that date until Mr. Hankin's arrival he his
only entitled to receive half Salary, and Mr. Hankin should receive the
other half.
appears to me
that he was entitled to expect that he would continue to receive full
pay as Colonial Secretary until you had been given notice that another
arrangement was to be made, that is to say in the present instance until
the 21st November. From that date until Mr. Hankin's arrival he his
only entitled to receive half Salary, and Mr. Hankin should receive the
other half.
Mr. Hankin is of course entitled to receive full pay as Colonial
Secretary from the dateof
of his arrival in the Colony.
of his arrival in the Colony.