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Despatch to London
Douglas, Sir James to Lytton, Sir Edward George Earle Bulwer 11 April 1859, CO 60:4, no. 5443, 274.

Abstract
Despatch to London. Minutes (2).
Douglas acknowledges receipt of the Colonial Office’s despatch ensuring him that Brew will be compensated for his losses enroute to British Columbia in the “Austria” sinking.
The minutes “Put by.”
No. 131
Victoria, Vancouver's Island
11 April 1859
Sir,
I have to acknowledge receipt of your Despatch of the 28th January last No 9, and the contents thereof shall be duly communicated to Mr Brew as a reply to his application requesting, in consequence of the lossesManuscript imagelosses he sustained on his passage from England, that the repayment of the Advances made to him in England and in Nova Scotia might not be insisted on.
I have etc.
James Douglas
Minutes by CO staff
Manuscript image
Put by.
ABd 28/5
At once.
HM May 31
Douglas, Sir James to Lytton, Sir Edward George Earle Bulwer 11 April 1859, CO 60:4, no. 5443, 274. 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/B59131.html.

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