I am directed by the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for
Trade to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the
16th ult
transmitting by direction of the Secretary of State for the Colonies a
copy of an Ordinance of the Government of
British Columbia entitled
"An Ordinance to
assimilate assimilate and amend the Law prohibiting the sale or
gift of intoxicating Liquor to Indians" together with a copy of the
Report of the Attorney General of that Colony thereon, and requesting
that the
Duke of Buckingham may be favoured with their Lordships opinion,
whether any alteration is required in this Ordinance, or if it should be
left in operation as it now stands.
As in your letter the attention of their Lordships was more
particularly directed to Sections
10 10 and 11, they have carefully
considered the effect of those provisions, and I am now to state for
His Grace's information, that taking into consideration the particular
circumstances of the case, and bearing in mind the very stringent and
arbitrary laws in force in this country with a view to the prevention
of Contraband Trade, on the importation of prohibited articles, My
Lords are of opinion that there are no sufficient grounds for
recommending Her Majesty to disallow this
Ordinance Ordinance in its present shape.