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Despatch to London
Douglas, Sir James to Molesworth, Sir William 10 December 1855, CO 305:6, no. 1476, 165.

Abstract
Despatch to London. Minutes (1), Enclosures (untranscribed) (1).
Douglas writes to Molesworth to transmit, as requested earlier by Molesworth, “a properly certified account” and proof of expenses for the Otter’s use as a “guard ship” for Vancouver Island's "settlement," the cost for which Douglas notes as £400, an expense the government has agreed to defray.
The file includes a copy of Douglas’s account of the HBC’s charter of the Otter, and the expenses for the same.
No. 27
Victoria Vancouver's Island
10th December 1855
Sir
I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your Despatch No 1 of the 3rd of August last apprizing me that Her Majesty's Government having again taken into their consideration the circumstances under which I chartered the ship "Otter," as a guard ship for the protection of this settlement, will be prepared to defray the amount thus expended, upon receiving a properly certified account of thesameManuscript image same.
I have in consequence the honor of transmitting herewith the required account shewing the sum expended for that object amounting to £400 Sterling.
I beg also to inform you that I had previously to the receipt of your Despatch forwarded copies of the same account to the Hudson's Bay Company from whom the ship "Otter" was chartered.
I have the honor to be Sir
Your most obedient humble Servant
James Douglas
Governor

The Right Honble Sir William Molesworth Bart.
Her Majesty's principal Secretary of State
For the Colonial Department.
Minutes by CO staff
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Put by, the claim having been discharged by the War Dept.
ABd 14 F
HM F 14
JB 15 F
HL 18
Documents enclosed with the main document (not transcribed)
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Account to the Hudson's Bay Company for charter of the steam vessel Otter from 13 July to 1 August 1854 in the amount of £400, dated 27 September 1855, signed by Douglas.
Douglas, Sir James to Molesworth, Sir William 10 December 1855, CO 305:6, no. 1476, 165. 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/V55127.html.

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