Colonial Despatches
The colonial despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871
Despatch from London
Lytton, Sir Edward George Earle Bulwer to
Douglas, Sir James 2 September 1858, CO 398:1, 89.
Abstract
Despatch from London.
Lytton recommends that Douglas appoint Gold Commissioners with the powers of magistrates in British Columbia.
Separate
Downing Street
2 September 1858
Sir,
From information which has just reached me from the Lords
Commissioners of the Admiralty in a report sent by Captain Richards.
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it would seem desirable to appoint if you have not already done so
Gold Commissioners armed with the powers of Magistrates. I submit
this suggestion to your local experience, and I feel that it must be
unnecessary
to add the self-evident caution to form at once, a Police at the Diggings.
to add the self-evident caution to form at once, a Police at the Diggings.
You will long, ere this, have received instructions not to
close Frazer's River nor arrogate for the Hudson's Bay Company
priviliges of exclusion, which they did not really possess and
which will no longer be subjected to the misunderstanding which I
regret to have observed.
Footnotes
- Check 8616, 8646, 8647, or 8800, CO 6/25. GET ??