Colonial Despatches
The colonial despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871
Public Offices document
Romaine, William Govett to
Fortescue, 1st Baron Carlingford Chichester 8 June 1863, CO 60:17, no. 5539, 30.
Abstract
Romaine, William Govett to
Fortescue, 1st Baron Carlingford Chichester 8 June 1863, CO 60:17, no. 5539, 30.
Public Offices document.
Minutes (2), Other documents (1), Marginalia (1).
Romaine to Under-Secretary of State
Admiralty
8 June 1863
Sir,
With reference to your letter of the 11th of December 1862
signifying the concurrence of the Secretary of State to
the proposition that the Colonial Government of British Columbia
should contribute the sum of £500 per annum in aid of the
cost of the survey of the coast of the Colony; I am commanded
by My Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to request you will
move the Duke of Newcastle to cause the amount in question
(which My Lords are informed has been agreed to by the Colonial
Government) to be now paid over to the Naval Department in aid
of the first year's cost of the Survey,and
and to cause a similar
amount to be paid over annually until the completion of the Service.
This is an error of the Admiralty's. The letter dated 11th of Decr was written by the Col: Sectary to Capt Richards.
and to cause a similar
amount to be paid over annually until the completion of the Service.
Minutes by CO staff
Mr Elliot
In a desph dated the 7 of last March No 14—which is still in circulation—the Governor reports having placed this sum of £500 for a survey on the Coast of B.C. on the Estimates for this year. Those Estimates have not yet recd the Duke of Newcastle's approval, nor have they been sent to the Treasury.
In a desph dated the 7 of last March No 14—which is still in circulation—the Governor reports having placed this sum of £500 for a survey on the Coast of B.C. on the Estimates for this year. Those Estimates have not yet recd the Duke of Newcastle's approval, nor have they been sent to the Treasury.
If the amount be sanctioned the Govr shd be
instructed to act in compliance with
this request.
this request.
ABd
10 June
The despatch returned from circulation afterwards, and the
estimates were agreed to, so far as we are concerned. I
annex a draft to Admiralty, asking a preliminary question.
TFE
6 Augt
Other documents included in the file
Elliot to Secretary to the Admiralty, 7 August 1863, advising
that the £500 had been provided in the estimates, and asking them
to suggest a "person or Authority" who could be named to receive the
payment in the colony itself.