Colonial Despatches
The colonial despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871
Public Offices document
Corry, Henry Thomas Lowry to Merivale, Herman 18 December 1858, CO 60:2, no. 13024, 69.
Abstract
Public Offices document.
Minutes (2).
Corry informs the CO that the Admiralty has received the Queen’s letter patent to establish
a Court of Vice Admiralty in British Columbia and that the cost of the letters will be repaid to the Chief Clerk of the Colonial
Department.
The minutes process the payment and “Put by.”
Corry to Merivale (Permanent Under-Secretary)
Admiralty
18 December 1858
Sir,
Having laid before My Lords Commissioners of the
Admiralty your letter of the 17th
Instant,
1
transmitting the Queens letter Patent empowering their Lordships to
establish a Court of Vice Admiralty in British Columbia,
and requesting that the cost of these
letters
2
(twenty six pounds and six shillings) may be repaid to the Chief Clerk of
the Colonial Department; I am commanded by their Lordships to acquaint
you for the information of Secretary Sir E.B. Lytton, that the necessary
orders have been issued to the Solicitor of their office to carry
that arrangement into effect.
Footnotes
- A draft of this letter appears in Romaine to Merivale (Permanent Under-Secretary), 22 September 1858, 9862, CO 60/2, p. 8.
- = stamp tax Cf. Trevelyan to Merivale (Permanent Under-Secretary), 2 November 1858, 11279, CO 60/2, p. 277, for stamp tax on Douglas' and Begbie's commissions. Cf. Rothery to Under-Secretary of State, 31 December 1858, 2, CO 60/2, p. 73 and Rothery to Under-Secretary of State, 31 December 1858, 3, CO 60/2, p. 74. Cost of letters, stamp tax.