Colonial Despatches
The colonial despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871
Public Offices document
Colonial Church and School Society to Colonial Office 8 October 1858, CO 60:2, no. 10427, 172.
Abstract
Public Offices document.
Minutes (2).
The Colonial Church & School Society appoint Reverend W.B. Crickmer to the mission in British Columbia. They hope Crickmer and his wife can go with Moody and that the government will defray the travel expenses.
The minutes regret that they must “resist” the society’s request.
Colonial Church and School Society to Colonial Office
8 October 1858
The Committee have, in compliance with the most urgent appeals,
appointed the Rev. W.B. Crickmer, curate of Marylebone, to the mission in
British Columbia. They are anxious to send Mr Crickmer and his wife to
the new Colony with Colonel Moody. The expense of passage for one person
will be about £120 and it would be a great favor if
the Government would
give the Society a grant in order to defray the expenses
of Mr & Mrs Crickmer.
the Government would
give the Society a grant in order to defray the expenses
of Mr & Mrs Crickmer.
[No signature]
Minutes by CO staff
As it appears from the researches made by Mr Irving in
consequence of
9904
1
that there is no precedent for giving a Clergyman—who holds no official
employment—a grant of money to provide himself with passage to a Colony
and as the Society has been unable to avail itself of a passage in the
"Thames City" which we offered, I think we have now no alternative except
to obey Sir E. Lytton's minute on 9904, and "resist."
ABd
19 Octr
Write to regret that there is no precedent.
EBL
Oct 22
Footnotes
- Hart to Secretary of State, 28 September 1858, 9904, CO 60/2, p. 158. Hart Hart to Secretary of State, 28 September 1858.