Colonial Despatches
The colonial despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871
Correspondence (private letter)
Chamberlyne, Colonel W. S. to
Carnarvon, Earl 23 September 1867, CO 60:31, no. 205, 217.
Abstract
Chamberlyne, Colonel W. S. to
Carnarvon, Earl 23 September 1867, CO 60:31, no. 205, 217.
Correspondence (private letter).
Minutes (3), Enclosures (untranscribed) (1).
Chamberlyne to Secretary of State
Jamaica
23rd September 1867
Sir,
I have the honor to transmit for your favorable consideration
the enclosed Letter from Lieut Allman of the Regiment under my
command requesting a grant of Land in Van Couver's Island for the
purpose of becoming a settler on retirement from the Service.
Lieut Allman has served 10 years in the Army and has forwarded
his application for permission to sell his Commission to the Military
Secretary, Horse Guards.
Lieut Allman is not leaving the Service for anything affecting
his character as an officer or a gentleman.
The Right Honorable
The Secretary of State
for the Colonies
&c &c &c
Downing Street
Minutes by CO staff
The delay in bringing this letter forward has occurred thus.
It was received in the Jamaican tray with an imperfectly erased
minute on it in the hand of the Colonial Secretary.
It was supposed that it had been sent under cover to the
Governor according to regulation—that it had been accidentally
forwarded without a covering despatch but that one wd follow.
It was accordingly kept till the expected despatch shd arrive
but the circumstances were communicated to the Colonial Secy's
office.
By the answer recd from the Colonial Secretarys office by the
last mail, it appears that Colonel C's letter was not originally sent
through the Governor, that it had been opened in Jamaica
inadvertently and afterwards sent on in the bag.
It is therefore now brought forward.
Documents enclosed with the main document (not transcribed)
L.G. Allman to Captain Hewett, 3rd West India Regiment, 20
September 1867, asking that his application for a grant of land in
Vancouver Island be forwarded to the secretary of state for the
colonies.