Colonial Despatches
The colonial despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871
Despatch from London
Grey, Third Earl, Henry George to
Blanshard, Governor Richard
15 September 1849, LAC :, 3.
Abstract
Despatch from London.
Grey writes Blanshard to transmit, along with copies of Blanshard's “Commission and Instructions,” a copy of a recently passed act regarding the administration
of justice on Vancouver Island. Grey then discusses how the act, in concert with the Commission and Instructions, will
affect Blanshard's legal power and reach.
Downing Street
15 Sept. 1849
Sir,
I now transmit to you a copy of an Act passed in the last Session
for the administration of Justice in Vancouvers Island, together with
printed copies of your Commission and Instructions.
The object of the Act was to remove as far, as Vancouver's Island
is concerned, the restrictive force of certainprovisions
provisions respecting
the Administration of Justice in the "North West, or Indian"
Territories of North America, contained in two former Acts, of which
copies are likewise forwarded.
provisions respecting
the Administration of Justice in the "North West, or Indian"
Territories of North America, contained in two former Acts, of which
copies are likewise forwarded.And the effect of it in conjunction with your Commission and
Instructions will be to give you power for the present to make such
provisions as you may consider most advisable both for the apprehension
of
of offenders and the Trial of Prisoners, and the conduct of Civil Cases,
subject, however, to the power which the Legislature of the Island will
hereafter be able to exercise in altering such provisions.
of offenders and the Trial of Prisoners, and the conduct of Civil Cases,
subject, however, to the power which the Legislature of the Island will
hereafter be able to exercise in altering such provisions.