Colonial Despatches
The colonial despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871
Despatch to London
Seymour, Governor Frederick to
Grenville, Richard 8 August 1868, CO 60:33, no. 9937, 236.
Abstract
Seymour, Governor Frederick to
Grenville, Richard 8 August 1868, CO 60:33, no. 9937, 236.
Despatch to London.
Minutes (2), Enclosures (untranscribed) (1).
No. 96
Victoria
8th August 1868
My Lord Duke,
I have the honor to forward three Copies of the Journals of the
Legislative Council of British Columbia during its fifth Session,that
that of 1868.
that of 1868.
2. The delay in transmission must be accounted for in the
removal of the printing office together with every other
department from New Westminster to Victoria. The confusion
attendant on the change has thrown back the work in nearly all
the public offices.
3. The Minutes I enclose may perhaps not be without interest as
exhibiting themanner
manner in which two Colonies, whose antagonism
heretofore was a public scandal along this Coast have conducted
business since Union. In another respect also they may be
worthy of notice as showing the working of the novel experiment
of an almost despotic Government over an Anglo-Saxon community
which is possessed at the sametime
time of an exuberantly free press.
manner in which two Colonies, whose antagonism
heretofore was a public scandal along this Coast have conducted
business since Union. In another respect also they may be
worthy of notice as showing the working of the novel experiment
of an almost despotic Government over an Anglo-Saxon community
which is possessed at the sametime
time of an exuberantly free press.
4. I trust that the Colony will soon progress to the stage when
it will become my pleasing duty to recommend to Your Grace that
a more liberal constitution be granted.
Minutes by CO staff
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