Colonial Despatches
The colonial despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871
Public Offices document
Trevelyan, Sir Charles Edward to Merivale, Herman 17 November 1858, CO 60:2, no. 11799, 295.
Abstract
Public Offices document.
Minutes (4), Other documents (1).
Trevelyan informs the Colonial Office that the Treasury “does not object” to Gosset’s request for a skeleton gear of a water wheel, the machinery of a circular mill
and a lithographic press as long as the cost does not exceed £200.
The minutes inform the Agent General of British Columbia.
Trevelyan to Merivale (Permanent Under-Secretary)
Treasury Chambers
17 November 1858
Sir,
With reference to your letter of the 9th
Inst;
1
enclosing a letter from Capt Gosset, the Colonial Treasurer of British
Columbia, requesting that a Skeleton Gear of a powerful water wheel and
the Machinery of a circular Mill, and also a Lithographic press may be
sent out to him, I am directed by the Lords Commissioners of Her
Majesty's Treasury to acquaint you, for the information of Sir E.B. Lytton, that My Lords will not object to these Articles being supplied
for the service of the Expedition to British Columbia, provided that the
Cost does not exceed £200, and on theunderstanding
understanding that the amount will
be repaid from Colonial funds.
understanding that the amount will
be repaid from Colonial funds.
Minutes by CO staff
Mr Elliot
The Agent General has not yet acted in the capacity of Agent for the new Colony of B. Columbia, but I presume that the transaction of any Agency business in connection with it will necessarily devolve on him, and that he should be instructed in the present instance
to provide
the skeleton gear and Machinery?
The Agent General has not yet acted in the capacity of Agent for the new Colony of B. Columbia, but I presume that the transaction of any Agency business in connection with it will necessarily devolve on him, and that he should be instructed in the present instance
to provide
the skeleton gear and Machinery?
I think so.
C
Nov 20
Yes.
EBL
Novr 26
NB—private accts represent the rage for B. Columbia as
sensibly cooled & land at Vancouver having suddenly fallen to its old
level. A bad prospective for [prime-scale?] revenue.
Other documents included in the file
Draft, Elliot to E. Barnard, Crown Agents, 2 December 1858,
forwarding copy of Gosset's letter and instructing him to procure and
transmit the articles requested, providing the cost did not exceed £200.
Footnotes
- = skeleton gear, litho press. A draft of this letter appears in Gosset to Under-Secretary of State, 26 October 1858, 10965, CO/3, p. 120.