No. 7
I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your Despatch No 21,
of the
13th of December last, informing that a Box, containing an
official seal for the Supreme Court of
Vancouver's Island, with a hand
press, and also a seal for the Custom's Department of
the Islandhad
had
been forwarded through the Admiralty, and that the cost of these
articles amounts to eleven pounds, sixteen shillings ( 11.16.0), and
directing me to remit that sum to the Chief Clerk of your office.
I now, therefore, herewith, transmit an order for the sum of eleven
pounds sixteen shillings, on the Secretary of the Hudson's Bay Company,
under cover to the Chief Clerk of your office in payment of that
account.
We shall give particular attention to the written directions as
to the manner of using the Seal of the Supreme Court.
I have the honor to be Sir
Your most obedient humble Servant
James Douglas
Governor
The Right
Honble Henry Labouchere Esq
re
Her Majesty's principal Secretary of State
For the Colonial Department.
Minutes by CO staff
Ack
e rec
t of the money, which
Mr Smith has received.