Colonial Despatches
The colonial despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871
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Hamilton, George Alexander to Rogers, Baron Blachford Frederic 26 September 1862, CO 60:14, no. 9538, 292.
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Hamilton, George Alexander to Rogers, Baron Blachford Frederic 26 September 1862, CO 60:14, no. 9538, 292.
Public Offices document.
Minutes (2), Enclosures (untranscribed) (1).
Hamilton to Rogers (Permanent Under-Secretary)
Treasury Chambers
26 September 1862
With reference to your letter dated 17th Instant enclosing
copy of a Despatch from the Governor of British Columbia with a
Proclamation which provides for raising a Loan not exceeding
£50,000, I am commanded by the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's
Treasury to transmit to you copy of certain Observations by
Mr Julyan, Agent General for Crown Colonies, on this Proclamation,
and I am to request that you will state to the Duke of Newcastle
that it appears to My Lords very probable that on the receipt of
the Despatch of 16 June last, founded on the Treasury letter of
the same date, the Governormay
may have taken steps in conformity with
the precise instructions conveyed to him, whereby most of the
objections raised by Mr Julyan will have been removed, and that
it will be better to defer any proceedings on this Proclamation
until a further communication shall have been received from the
Governor.
may have taken steps in conformity with
the precise instructions conveyed to him, whereby most of the
objections raised by Mr Julyan will have been removed, and that
it will be better to defer any proceedings on this Proclamation
until a further communication shall have been received from the
Governor.
In the meanwhile the substance of the Observations might be
communicated to the Governor, and he might be informed that as
the money is to be raised in England it will be necessary that
the Agents General should be advised regularly of the Local Rates
of Exchange on London, in order that they maybe
be enabled to judge
of the most advantageous mode of remitting the money to the Colony.
be enabled to judge
of the most advantageous mode of remitting the money to the Colony.
Minutes by CO staff
Answer this letter by transmitting the despatch received
to-day from the Governor, in a letter in the terms proposed
in that Despatch? I think it will be needless & unadvisable
to send out the present communication to [the] Governor, until
we see whether it will not be suspended by the terms of the
new act which he is going to send home.
Documents enclosed with the main document (not transcribed)
Penrose G. Julyan, Crown Agent, 23 September 1862, remarking on the "British Columbia Roads Loan Act, 1862."