Colonial Despatches
The colonial despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871
Public Offices document
Booth, James to Fortescue, Chichester 7 April 1864, CO 305:24, no. 3263, 235.
Abstract
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Minutes (2), Other documents (2).
Booth acknowledges the Board of Trade’s receipt of despatches enclosing
lists of stores required for lighthouses at Race Rocks and Fisgard Islandand asks that
the Board of Trade will be repaid by the Colonial Office.
Booth to Under-Secretary of State
I am directed by the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for
Trade to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 1st Instant
transmitting copies of two Despatches from the Governor of Vancouvers
Island enclosing lists of Stores required for the Lighthouses at Race
Rocks and Fisgard Island, and requesting to be informed whether my
Lords think it desirable that the Colonial Agents General should be
authorized to procure and send out these Stores as proposed by the
Governor.
In reply I am to state to you for the information of the Secretary ofState
State for the Colonies that the course hitherto adopted for the
supply of Stores required for the Lighthouses in Vancouvers Island
has been for the Board of Trade to procure the stores and send them
out to the Colony, the expenses incurred being repaid by the Colonial
Office.
State for the Colonies that the course hitherto adopted for the
supply of Stores required for the Lighthouses in Vancouvers Island
has been for the Board of Trade to procure the stores and send them
out to the Colony, the expenses incurred being repaid by the Colonial
Office.
In the present case my Lords think it would be desirable that the
same course should be pursued and if the Secretary of State for the
Colonies concurs in that opinion, they will cause the Stores to be
procured and sent out to the Colony on the understanding that the
expenses incurred by the Board of Trade will be repaid by the
Colonial Office.
Minutes by CO staff
Mr Elliot
As the Board of Trade does not object to the trouble I think we shd let that Dt execute the order of the Colonial Govt, & inform the Board that the Crown Agents will be instructed to reimburse the expenditure.
As the Board of Trade does not object to the trouble I think we shd let that Dt execute the order of the Colonial Govt, & inform the Board that the Crown Agents will be instructed to reimburse the expenditure.
ABd
8 Apl
Certainly. Tell the Bd of Trade, & the Governor also. Drafts.
TFE
8/4
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Elliot to Booth, 16 April 1864, asking that the necessary stores
be procured and forwarded to the colony and advising that the Crown
Agents would be instructed to reimburse the Board of Trade for any
expenses incurred.
