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Despatch from London
Lytton, Sir Edward George Earle Bulwer to Douglas, Sir James 24 September 1858, LAC :, 207.

Abstract
Despatch from London.
Lytton addresses the decision to appoint a Lieutenant Governor for British Columbia. Moody is settled upon as “the most fitting person to hold the dormant Commission.”
No. 25
Downing Street,
24 September 1858
Sir,
You will have observed that the Letters Patent which appoints you to be Governor of British Columbia contemplates the appointment also of a "Lieutenant Governor" or other Officer commissioned by Her Majesty to administertheManuscript image the Government of the Colony in the event of your "Death, incapacity, removal, or absence, from the said Colony."
The position and experience of Colonel Moody point him out as the most fitting person to hold the dormant Commission of Lieutenant Governor, and I have, accordingly, advised Her Majesty to confer thatappointmentManuscript image appointment upon him.
I enclose for your information Copy of the Commission1 which has been given to Colonel Moody.
I have the honor to be
Sir
Your most Obedient
humble Servant
E B Lytton
Footnotes
  1. = Moody's Commission, Lt Gov. Cf. Douglas to Lytton, No. 47, 9 December 1858, 1063, CO 60/1, p. 506.
People in this document

Douglas, Sir James

Lytton, Sir Edward George Earle Bulwer

Moody, Colonel Richard Clement

Places in this document

British Columbia

Lytton, Sir Edward George Earle Bulwer to Douglas, Sir James 24 September 1858, LAC :, 207. The Colonial Despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871, Edition 2.0, ed. James Hendrickson and the Colonial Despatches project. Victoria, B.C.: University of Victoria. https://bcgenesis.uvic.ca/B587025.html.

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