Colonial Despatches
The colonial despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871
Correspondence (private letter)
Dickson, James to Cardwell, Edward 1866, CO 305:30, no. 3768, 294.
Abstract
Dickson, James to Cardwell, Edward 1866, CO 305:30, no. 3768, 294.
Correspondence (private letter).
Minutes (4), Enclosures (untranscribed) (21).
Dickson to Cardwell
[Note on microfilm as follows:]
Memorial to the Queen by Mr J. Dickson M.D. against Governors
order for his removal from the Office of Coroner.
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Without any covering letter but enclosed in an envelope addressed
to the Rt Honble E. Cardwell &c &c.
Minutes by CO staff
Wait for the report.
TFE
16/4
See 4662 recd 14 May.
This Memorial has been recd from the Govr in Desp N 16 [of]
4 Mar.
Documents enclosed with the main document (not transcribed)
Petition, Dickson to Queen Victoria, 12 February 1866,
explaining his dismissal from office and asking for redress,
with enclosures.
Handwritten copy of notice from the Colonial Secretary's office
inserted in the
Government Gazette, 9 January 1860, advising of the appointment
of Dickson as coroner.
Printed copy of a bill entitled "An Act relating to the office
of a Coroner," no date,
introduced by Dickson into the Legislative Assembly.
Resolution passed by the Legislative Assembly, 7 June 1865,
requiring the governor to submit certain returns relative to the
services of the coroner and the fees paid to him, signed by R.W. Torrens,
Clerk of the House.
Kennedy to Legislative Assembly, 21 June 1865, advising that he
was not in a position to supply the requested information and
submitting that there was "no 'Coroner' in this Colony, having
jurisdiction and that there is no authority vested in the Government
to appoint one."
W.A.G. Young, Colonial Secretary, to Dickson, 19 July 1865,
pointing out irregularities relative to claims in connection with
coroner's inquests and asking that he conform to the "rules and
regulations for keeping the public accounts."
Copy of Instrument of Revocation, 1 February 1866, certified by
Young.
House of Assembly to Kennedy, 13 February 1866, forwarding copy
of resolution passed 9 February 1866 disputing the dismissal of the
coroner and advising that "the House does not recognise the right of
His Excellency to remove the Coroner other than by the usual process
required by English Law," signed by Torrens.
Dickson to Cardwell, 15 February 1866, forwarding a petition
to the Queen appealing his recent dismissal as coroner in Vancouver
Island and providing a detailed background to his appointment and
subsequent loss of office.
Certificate of Lumley Franklin, Mayor of Victoria, 15 February 1866, testifying to the respectability of Dickson and certifying that
the enclosures to his petition were all correct copies.
