Colonial Despatches
The colonial despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871
Public Offices document
Pelly, Sir John Henry
to
Grey, Right Honorable, Second Baronet, Sir George
13 September 1848, CO 305:1, no. 1786, 261.
Abstract
Public Offices document.
Minutes (4), Other documents (1), Marginalia (4).
Pelly recommends to Grey the appointment of Douglas as temporary Governor of Vancouver Island, until, as Pelly adds, "the colony can afford to pay a Governor unconnected with the Hudson's Bay
Company." Pelly next lists others he feels are "qualified to
hold commissions of the Peace" in the colony.
In the letter which I had the honour to address to Your Lordship
under the date of the
*9th Instant, I confined myself to
answering your communication of the 4th. I now beg leave to
draw your Lordship's attention to your letter of the
†31st July,
in which you state that you would direct the draft of a
commission and instructions for the Governor of the proposed
settlement in Vancouver's Island to be prepared without delay and communicated to me, intimating at the same time
that you
would be glad to receive
from me an expression of my opinion as
to the person who may most properly be recommended to Her
Majesty for the office of Governor.
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paper
paper
5Ansd 27 Septr/48
from me an expression of my opinion as
to the person who may most properly be recommended to Her
Majesty for the office of Governor.In accordance with your Lordship's wish, I take the liberty of
recommending Mr James Douglas, the gentleman whose Report on
Vancouver's Island appears among the papers relating to that Island laid before Parliament.
Mr Douglas is a man of property, a Chief Factor of the Hudson's
Bay Company, and a member of the Board at Fort Vancouver for Managing
the Company's affairs in the country westward of the Rocky Mountains.
I do not propose this as a permanent appointment, but merely as a
temporary expedient until the colony can afford to pay a Governor
unconnected with the Hudson's Bay Company.
I also beg leave to submit for your Lordship's consideration the
names of the following gentlemen whom I think well qualified to
hold commissions of the Peace under the Act of 1st and 2d Geo. 4th c. 66.
Minutes by CO staff
Mr Hawes
The Governor's Commission is already in draft. Those of the Justices will require some consideration in consequence of the special direction of the Act.
The Governor's Commission is already in draft. Those of the Justices will require some consideration in consequence of the special direction of the Act.
HM.
S. 15.
Sepr 16.
I should be sorry to see a confidential agent of the Cy
made the first Governor
I see no objectn to it as a temporary arrangement — though I
doubt whether the Co are aware that issuing a temporary
commissn will of necessity be attended with some expense —
G.
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Footnotes
- This addressee information appears at the foot of the first page of the despatch.
- Though no signature appears, it is most certainly Blackwood's hand.
- Author unknown.
- Author unknown; refers to a note made toward the bottom right margin of this page. See image scan.
- Text runs perpendicular to body text.
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Grey, Right Honorable, Second Baronet, Sir George