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Correspondence (private letter)
Cary, Attorney General George Hunter to Carnarvon, Earl 14 March 1859, CO 60:6, no. 2763, 390.

Abstract
Correspondence (private letter). Minutes (2), Other documents (1).
Cary accepts the position of Attorney General of British Columbia.
The minutes “direct” the Treasury to pay Cary “the usual allowance” for officials going to British Columbia “in the first instance.”
Enclosed is a draft from Merivale to G.A. Hamilton, Treasury, 21 March 1859, asking that £150 be issued to Cary as a salary advance to defray passage costs to the colony.
Cary to Carnarvon (Parliamentary Under-Secretary)


To The Right Honorable the Earl of Carnarvon

 
My Lord
I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Lordships letter of the tenth instant and to request that you will inform Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton that I have great pleasure in accepting the office of Her Majesty's Attorney General for British Columbia and that I shall be prepared Manuscript imageto start for my destination on the second proximo.
I have the honour to be Your Lordship's obedient servant
George Hunter Cary

7 New Square Lincoln's Inn
March 14th 1859
Minutes by CO staff
Manuscript image
Direct the T-y to pay Mr Cary the usual allowance of £150 to Officers going to B. Columbia in the first instance.
ABd 15/3
HM Mh 16
Annex dt.
C Mch 17
[EBL] 17
Other documents included in the file
Manuscript image
Draft, Merivale to G.A. Hamilton, Treasury, 21 March 1859, asking that £150 be issued to Cary as a salary advance to defray passage costs to the colony.
Cary, Attorney General George Hunter to Carnarvon, Earl 14 March 1859, CO 60:6, no. 2763, 390. 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/B596C02.html.

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