No. 25
1. I have the honor of forwarding herewith copy of a
communication, accompanying the Rules of Practice for the "Supreme and
Inferior or Summary Courts of Civil Justice of
Vancouver's Island,"
which I have this day received from
Chief Justice Cameron, and now
transmit for
Her
Her Majesty's final approval or disallowance.
2. The Rules of the Supreme Court passed the Council without
amendment, on the
17 day of February last, as stated in my Despatch
of the
24 of that month; but the Rules of the Inferior or Summary
Court, having been only this day completed, have not been yet laid
before the Council, and are nevertheless forwarded for the reason that
there is a safe and free conveyance today by the
Hudson's Bay Company's
Steamer "
Otter" to
San Francisco, which will greatly lessen the postage
charge on this packet, and there is moreover no reason to suppose that
the Council will consider it necessary to alter or amend them.
3. I
3. I take this opportunity of requesting you to inform me, of the
amount of salary or emolument which
M Cameron is annually to receive
from Her Majesty's Government, for his services as Chief Justice, and to
direct how I am to draw for payment of the same.
4. May I trust that Her Majesty's Government will take that matter
into their early and favorable consideration, as
M Cameron is
clearly a zealous and most useful public servant, and having no private
fortune of his own, he naturally looks to his profession for the support
of himself and family.
I have the honor to be Sir
Your most obedient humble Servant
James Douglas
Governor
The Right
Hon Henry Labouchere Esq
Her Majesty's principal Secretary of State
For the Colonial Department.
Minutes by CO staff
There is nothing in the terms of the appointment of
M Cameron
to be Chief Justice of
V. Couver's Island, or in the circes which led to
his nomination to that Office, to justify the presumption that H.M.
Gov intended to give him a salary. I apprehend we concluded that,
as a matter of course, such Salary
w be paid by the Hudson's Bay
Company: or by the appropriation of the recently convened Legislature.
When
M Cameron was appointed by the
Gov Judge of the Supreme
Court in
1854, the Governor provided him with a Salary of 100 a year.
See
M Douglas'
desp 3206 of
/54.
Other documents included in the file
Draft reply, Labouchere to
Douglas, No. 14,
6 November 1857.
Documents enclosed with the main document (not transcribed)