Colonial Despatches
The colonial despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871
Despatch from London
Leveson-Gower, Granville George to Musgrave, Anthony 24 January 1870, NAC RG7:G8C/17, 19.
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Leveson-Gower, Granville George to Musgrave, Anthony 24 January 1870, NAC RG7:G8C/17, 19.
Despatch from London.
No. 7
Downing Street
24 January 1870
Sir,
I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your Despatch No. 33
of the 8th December, enclosing an extract from the Minutes of Council in
reference to the cases of three Indians convicted of murder and sentenced
to death, and reporting what decision has been finally arrived at in
each case.
You
You ask for instructions as to reporting similar cases for the
future, and in reply I have to inform you that as reports of Capital
Sentences are transmitted from the majority of the Colonies, I am of
opinion that the course hitherto adopted in British Columbia should be
adhered to.