Colonial Despatches
The colonial despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871
Despatch from London
Cardwell, Edward to Seymour, Governor Frederick 8 July 1865, NAC :, 167.
Abstract
Cardwell, Edward to Seymour, Governor Frederick 8 July 1865, NAC :, 167.
Despatch from London.
Other documents (3).
No. 39
8 July 1865
Sir,
I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your Despatch No. 13
of the 1st of March enclosing a Return of the Receipts and Expenditures
of the Assay Department for the year 1864, and proposing on the grounds
assigned by you, to make a considerable increase to the staff of the
Department.
I transmit for your information and guidance acopy
copy of a letter
addressed by my direction to the Board of Treasury, together with a copy
of the reply to it. These letters will place you in possession of my
views, in which the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury concur, with
regard to incurring at present the additional expenditure that would be
required for giving effect to your proposal.
copy of a letter
addressed by my direction to the Board of Treasury, together with a copy
of the reply to it. These letters will place you in possession of my
views, in which the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury concur, with
regard to incurring at present the additional expenditure that would be
required for giving effect to your proposal.
Other documents included in the file
Copy, Elliot to Peel, 24 June 1865, submitting returns, receipts, and expenditures of the Assay Department in British Columbia.
