Colonial Despatches
The colonial despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871
Public Offices document
Tennent, Sir James Emerson to
Elliot, Thomas Frederick 30 October 1858, CO 60:2, no. 11118, 248.
Abstract
Public Offices document.
Minutes (2), Other documents (1).
Tennent reports, on behalf of the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade, that
Douglas’s proclamation establishing harbour regulations appears “to be usual and proper”
and “calculated to secure the efficiency of the Boats and to prevent smuggling.”
The minutes “acquaint” Douglas.
Tennent to Elliot (Assistant Under-Secretary)
Office of Committee of Privy Council for Trade
Whitehall
30 October 1858
Whitehall
Sir,
I am directed by The Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for
Trade to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 23rd
instant
1
transmitting by direction of Secretary Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton for their
opinion, copy of a proclamation issued by the Governor of Vancouvers
Island on the 25th
August
2
establishing Harbour regulations in the Ports of Victoria and Esquimalt
and alsoRegulations
Regulations for Boats and other small craft employed on the
Coasts of the Island.
Regulations for Boats and other small craft employed on the
Coasts of the Island.
In reply I am to request that you will state to Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton that the Harbour Regulations appear to My Lords to be usual and
proper for the purpose of preserving order and regularity in the mooring
and berthing of Vessels and for security against fire, and that the
coast regulations seem calculated to secure the efficiency of the Boats
and to prevent smuggling.
Footnotes
- A draft of this letter appears in Douglas to Lytton, 30 August 1858, 10344, CO 60/1, p. 134.
- = Elliot to TR, 23 Oct 58, re harbour regulations A draft of this of this letter, Elliot to James Booth, appears in Douglas to Lytton, 30 August 1858, 10344, CO 60/1, p. 134. FIND Proclamation re harbour regulations. Not in V58037.scx or Papers Relative to British Columbia.
- = coasting trade, Lytton to Douglas, Confidential, 14 October 1858.