No. 65, Miscellaneous
               
            
            
               3 November 1863
               
            
            
               I have duly received Your Grace's Despatch N
o 40 of
               the 
31st July 1863, transmitting to me copy of a further
               letter from 
Mr Charles Walkem relative to the admission of
               his Son to the Bar of 
British Columbia.
               
               2.  I have forwarded a copy of that Despatch together with
its
               its enclosure to 
Mr Justice Begbie, and I will not fail to
               lay before your Grace any report which 
Mr Begbie may have to
               make on the matter.
               
               3.  In the meantime the disabilities complained of as to
               the admission of Colonial Lawyers to practice in the Courts of
               the Colony, have been removed by the passage of the "Legal
               Professions Act 1863," which I had the honor to forward to
               Your Grace in my Despatch No 41 of the 9th July 1863.
               
            
            
               I have the honor to be
               My Lord Duke
               Your Graces most obedient
               and humble Servant
               
James Douglas
               
               Minutes by CO staff
               
               
               
               
                  
                  Sir F. Rogers
                     I hardly think that this will be enough.  The Governor says that the
                     complaint is met (as I suppose it is) by a certain act.  Ought not 
Lord
                        Monck to be told what the provisions of that Law are?
                     
 
                  
                  
                   
               
               
                  
                  
                     Mr Jadis
                     Send copy, adding that 
Mr Walkem will probably have heard
                     from his son that under a recent proclamation, N
o 8 
1863, Colonial
                     barristers & solicitors may now be admitted to practise in 
BC.
                     
 
                  
                  
                  
                   
                
            
            
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