Colonial Despatches
The colonial despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871
Public Offices document
Berens, Henry Hulse to Pelham-Clinton, 5th Duke of Newcastle Henry Pelham Fiennes 15 June 1860, CO 60:9, no. 6239, 152.
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Berens, Henry Hulse to Pelham-Clinton, 5th Duke of Newcastle Henry Pelham Fiennes 15 June 1860, CO 60:9, no. 6239, 152.
Public Offices document.
Minutes (3), Other documents (1).
Berens to Newcastle
Agreeably to your Grace's desire I have now the honor to
inform your Grace that this Company have presented separate
Petitions to Her Majesty in Council, praying to have their rights
determined in regard to the disputed territory in British
Columbia and in the Island of Vancouver.
It will now therefore be necessary that this Company's
Solicitors should be placed in communication with the Law
Advisers of the Government, in order to arrange the documentary
evidence to be
produced
produced before the Judicial Committee.
produced before the Judicial Committee.
Minutes by CO staff
Mr Elliot
I apprehend that we have now to Apprize the Treasury of the proposed suit before the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, request that their Solicitor may be instructed to get up the case (for which this Office will have to furnish the requisite Papers) and
take such other steps as are proper on the occasion.
I apprehend that we have now to Apprize the Treasury of the proposed suit before the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, request that their Solicitor may be instructed to get up the case (for which this Office will have to furnish the requisite Papers) and
take such other steps as are proper on the occasion.
ABd
19 June
Sir F. Rogers
I suppose that this will be the right course.
I suppose that this will be the right course.
TFE
20 June
Mr Fortescue
I should think so.
I should think so.
Other documents included in the file
Draft, Elliot to G.A. Hamilton, Treasury, 28 June 1860, asking that
their solicitor be instructed to prepare the case on behalf
of the government.