Colonial Despatches
The colonial despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871
Despatch to London
Musgrave, Sir Anthony to
Leveson-Gower, Granville George 4 June 1870, CO 60:39, no. 7279, 2.
Abstract
Musgrave, Sir Anthony to
Leveson-Gower, Granville George 4 June 1870, CO 60:39, no. 7279, 2.
Despatch to London.
Minutes (4), Enclosures (untranscribed) (2), Other documents (1).
No. 78
4th June 1870
My Lord,
I have the honor to forward to Your Lordship, an authenticated,
and two plain copies of an ordinance passed by the Legislative
Council entitled,
An ordinance to amend the road ordinance 1869.
2. The Attorney General's Report which is annexed will furnish
all necessary information, respecting this measure, which seems
to be required.
Minutes by CO staff
Mr Holland (when returned)
This is a stringent & summary measure, but on the whole it seems a good one.
This is a stringent & summary measure, but on the whole it seems a good one.
Is not the 1st proviso in sec iii defectively drafted? It
means of [course?]
to exempt a person paying on a/c of real estate from also paying
the Poll-tax.
And will it be of much use (sec iv) to
authorise only, & not to require,
an employer to deduct the annual tax from his employee's wages?
I like the Absentee tax.
RGWH
July 7/70
Documents enclosed with the main document (not transcribed)
Three printed copies of ordinance not on microfilm.
H.P.P. Crease, Attorney General, to Musgrave, 11 May 1870,
reporting on the ordinance as per despatch. Letter is incomplete,
ending abruptly in mid sentence and lacking a signature.
