Lennox to Under-Secretary of State
Admiralty
22 June 1868
Sir,
In reply to your Letter of the 16th Instant transmitting a Copy of a Letter from Mr J. Scott Tucker relative to the desirability of constructing a Hydraulic Lift at Vancouvers Island; I am commanded by my Lords Commissioners oftheManuscript image the Admiralty to acquaint you, for the information of the Secretary of State for the Colonies, that, should a company be formed and the requisite Capital be subscribed for the formation of a Hydraulic Lift in the Harbour of Esquimalt, my Lords will be prepared to recommend to the Treasury the application in favour of the undertaking,ofManuscript image of the provisions of the "Colonial Docks Loans Act."
I am, Sir,
Your obedient Servant
Henry G. Lennox
Minutes by CO staff
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CC 23 June
FR 24/6
CBA 25/6
B&C 26/6
Other documents included in the file
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Adderley to J. Scott Tucker, British Columbia Graving Dock Co., 30 June 1868, advising the Admiralty would be prepared to recommend an application to Treasury as per despatch.
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Draft reply, Buckingham to Seymour, No. 42, 30 June 1868.
Lennox, Henry Gordon to Adderley, C. B. 22 June 1868, CO 60:34, no. 6609, 26. 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/B685AD08.html.

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