Colonial Despatches
The colonial despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871
Despatch to London
Douglas, Sir James to Labouchere, Henry 10 March 1858, CO 305:9, no. 4568, 13.
Abstract
Despatch to London.
Minutes (1), Enclosures (untranscribed) (3).
Douglas forwards copies of ordinances previously neglected and updates the CO on the Act
to “Enfranchise the Town of Victoria” and regrets that other administrative updates are delayed “for want of clerical
assistance.”
The minutes “Put by- for reference.”
No. 8
10 March 1858
1. I have the honor of transmitting for your information copies
of several Ordinances and other Documents which were laid before
the House of Assembly on the 27th of May in pursuance of an
address from that body, and which ought to have been forwarded
with my Despatch No 20 of the 30th of June last; my reason for
not forwarding them at that time, beingan
an impression that they
were not required, as copies of all those papers had been
previously transmitted with the Minutes, as they passed and were
approved of by the Council.
an impression that they
were not required, as copies of all those papers had been
previously transmitted with the Minutes, as they passed and were
approved of by the Council.
2. I beg also to communicate for your information that the Act
which passed the Assembly on the 1st of June last to
"Enfranchise the Town of Victoria", has not yet received the
assent of Council, and will probably undergo some alteration
before it passes into a Law.
3. I have also the honor of transmitting herewith a copy of my
correspondence with the House of Assembly up to the 19th day of
December last inclusive. The report of the Committee of enquiry
into the state of the PublicSchools
Schools will be forwarded by the
next mail, as for want of clerical assistance it cannot be
copied in time for the present conveyance.
Schools will be forwarded by the
next mail, as for want of clerical assistance it cannot be
copied in time for the present conveyance.
4. The Assembly have not met for the despatch of public
business since Christmas and I have therefore nothing further of
any importance to report on this occasion respecting the
proceedings of that body.
I have etc.
Minutes by CO staff
Documents enclosed with the main document (not transcribed)
Returns to a requisition from the House of Assembly dated
18 May 1857,
for "copies of all Laws enacted by the Council at present in force
in the Colony," including extracts of Council Minutes relative to
Ordinances 1 through 7, 1853, and 8 through 10, 1856, and an
"Abstract of the Income and Expenditure of Vancouver's
Island—for the years ending respectively 31st October 1855 and
1856" (ten pages).
Returns to requisitions from the House of Assembly dated 18 and
28 May 1857, for "copies of all Laws enacted by the council at
present in force in this Colony" and for "information relative
to the Inferior Court of Civil Justice" (eight pages).
Copies of correspondence between Douglas and the House of
Assembly during the period from 25 June to 19 December 1857
(14 entries, ten pages).