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Trevor, C. Cecil to Forster, William Edward 21 January 1867, CO 305:30, no. 710, 66.

Abstract
Public Offices document. Minutes (3), Other documents (1).
Writing on behalf of the Board of trade in Whitehall, Trevor replies that this Board [has] no objection to the … Act to amend the scale of Fees charged for the entrance and clearance of Vessels, Licenses to Scows, Boats, and other craft, and dues for landing Permits, as well as other matters relating to the same in the Port of Victoria including Esquimalt. Rogers’s minute instructs that the Board of Trade’s approval be sent to the Council Office. The included document, from Carnarvon to the Lord President and the Queen in Council, recommends act No.135…be left to its operation.
Trevor to Under-Secretary of State
Board of Trade, Whitehall
21 Jany 1867
Sir,
I am directed by the Board of Trade to acknowledge your letter of the 7th Inst., transmitting for their consideration a transcript of an Act, No 11 of 1866, passed at the last Session of the Vancouvers Island Legislature, and entitled "An Act to amend the scale of Fees charged for the entrance and clearance of Vessels, Licenses to Scows, Boats, and other craft, and dues for landing Permits, as well as other matters relating to the same in the Port of Victoria including Esquimalt"—and requesting to be informed whether this Board are of opinion thatthisManuscript image this Act may properly be submitted for Her Majesty's Confirmation.
In reply I am to acquaint you for the information of the Earl of Carnarvon, that this Board see no objection to the Act in question.
I have etc.
C. Cecil Trevor
Minutes by CO staff
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Mr Holland
ABd 22-1
Sir F. Rogers
No 11 Harbour dues was referred to the Board of Trade, & they see no objection to it. Send it therefore to the Council Office with the 8 others that were approved of & sent on the 7 Jany last.
I suppose the observations upon the Liquor Licence Act & Homestead Act pointd out in your minute of 30th Nov. last will be set forth in the Despatch which goes out with the Orders in Council sanctioning the 9 other Acts.
HTH 25/1
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So proceed.
FR 25/1
Other documents included in the file
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Carnarvon to the Lord President, 28 January 1867, forwarding act No. 135 to the Queen in Council and recommending that it be left to its operation.