Colonial Despatches
The colonial despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871
Public Offices document
Trevelyan, Sir Charles Edward to Merivale, Herman 20 December 1858, CO 60:2, no. 13034, 340.
Abstract
Public Offices document.
Minutes (2), Enclosures (untranscribed) (1), Other documents (1).
Trevelyan forwards instructions from the British Treasury to officials in British Columbia for the “issue of Money and for defraying Expenditure, together with such other Forms
as the Commissioners may consider available under the present circumstances of the
Colony.
The minutes send the instructions to Douglas “for the guidance of the Treasurer.”
Enclosed is a draft from Lytton to Douglas with instructions from the Board of Treasury; and Instructions of the Lords Commissioners
of Her Majesty’s Treasury to the Treasurer of British Columbia for keeping the Accounts of that Colony.
Trevelyan to Merivale (Permanent Under-Secretary)
Treasury Chambers
20 December 1858
Sir,
With reference to your letter of the 10th
Inst;
1
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 have informed the Commissioners of
Audit that, although no Legislative Council has been created
in British Columbia, Their Lordships are of opinion that the
Forms of Authorities from the Governor to the Treasurer, for
the issue of Money and for defraying Expenditure, together
with such other Forms as the Commissioners may consider
available under the present circumstances of the Colony,
beyond the Instructions herewith transmitted,should
should be
sent out for adoption by the Governor as soon as the state
of the financial arrangements may admit.
should be
sent out for adoption by the Governor as soon as the state
of the financial arrangements may admit.
Minutes by CO staff
Annex dt.
HM
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Documents enclosed with the main document (not transcribed)
Instructions of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury
to the Treasurer of British Columbia for keeping the Accounts of that
Colony (26 pages), with attached form: X, Statement of specie receipts
and issues at the colonial treasury; A, Establishment; and B, Statement
of collections by various government offices.
Footnotes
- = Treasury instructions A draft of this letter appears in Trevelyan to Merivale (Permanent Under-Secretary), 24 November 1858, 12078, CO 60/2, p. 308. Merivale to Trevelyan, 10 December 1858. Take Instructions in full??