Colonial Despatches
The colonial despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871
Public Offices document
FitzGerald, James Edward
to Merivale, Herman 20 September 1858, CO 60:2, no. 9628, 87.
Abstract
Public Offices document.
Minutes (2), Enclosures (untranscribed) (3).
FitzGerald forwards correspondence between British and American officials regarding the “question
of imposing a License Duty on Miners” in British Columbia.
The minutes note the correspondence is “curious” but that it “shews [sic] favourably
for the liberality of British Authorities” in BC as compared to American ones in California.
Enclosed is Napier to Malmesbury enclosing a letter from John Appleton and describing Douglas’s regulations as “liberal;” Appleton to Napier regarding tax on foreigners digging for gold in California; and Nelson to Appleton advising “that the Laws of Congress make no discrimination whatever between [their]
citizens & foreigners in digging or collecting the precious metals.”
FitzGerald to Merivale (Permanent Under-Secretary)
Foreign Office
20 September 1858
Sir,
With reference to my Letter of the 18th
Ultimo,
1
enclosing Copy of a Despatch from Her M's Minister at Washington,
reporting a conversation which he had had with General Cass relative to
the question of imposing a License Duty on Miners in New Caledonia, I am
directed by the Earl of Malmesbury to transmit to you, for the
information of Secretary Sir E. Bulwer Lytton, a Copy of a further
Despatch from Lord Napier enclosing a copy of an unoffical Letter which
he had received from the Assistant Secretary of State on the same
subject.
Minutes by CO staff
Mr Merivale
This shews favorably for the liberality of British Authorities in dealing with Foreigners in Columbia as contrasted with the conduct pursued towards them for a few years in California. I imagine that this is merely sent for informn.
This shews favorably for the liberality of British Authorities in dealing with Foreigners in Columbia as contrasted with the conduct pursued towards them for a few years in California. I imagine that this is merely sent for informn.
ABd
23 Sep
Documents enclosed with the main document (not transcribed)
Napier to Malmesbury, No. 208, 6 September 1858, enclosing letter
from John Appleton and describing Douglas's regulations as "liberal."
Jos. S. Nelson, General Land Office, to Appleton, 23 August 1858,
advising "that the Laws of Congress make no discrimination whatever
between our citizens & foreigners in digging or collecting the
precious metals."
Footnotes
- 8407, CO 6/25, p. NEED
People in this document
Fitzgerald, Sir William Robert Seymour Vesey