No. 28
New Westminster
4th April 1868
My Lord Duke,
I have had the honor to receive Your Grace's Circular despatch of the 11th of December directing that the Law of this Colony respecting Treasonable Offences shouldbeManuscript image be assimilated to that of the Mother Country.
2. I enclose a letter from the Attorney General from which it will appear that the Imperial Statutes regarding Treason Felony extend over this Colony.
I have the honor to be,
My Lord Duke,
Your most obedient
humble Servant.
Frederick Seymour
Minutes by CO staff
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CC 16 June
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Sir F. Rogers
The Treason Felony Act is in force in B Columbia under an Ordinance of 1867.
This may be put by.
HTH 19/6
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At once.
FR 19/6
Documents enclosed with the main document (not transcribed)
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H.P.P. Crease, Attorney General, to Seymour, 16 March 1868, reporting that the law in question was already in effect in the colony under the terms of the "English Law Ordinance 1867."
Seymour, Governor Frederick to Grenville, Richard 4 April 1868, CO 60:32, no. 6300, 198. The Colonial Despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871, Edition 2.0, ed. James Hendrickson and the Colonial Despatches project. Victoria, B.C.: University of Victoria. https://bcgenesis.uvic.ca/B68028.html.

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