Colonial Despatches
The colonial despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871
Despatch to London
Douglas, Sir James to Lytton, Sir Edward George Earle Bulwer 15 April 1859, CO 305:10, no. 5894, 101.
No. 12
15 April 1859
I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your Despatch, of
the 7th February No 15, in reference to my Despatch of the
11th December last, No 49, which reported the appointment of
certain officers therein named, to situations in
in Vancouver's
Island, and you are pleased to observe that you have no
objections to offer to those nominations, provided the salaries
of the officers in question are defrayed from the resources of
Vancouver's Island, and in no degree interfere with the
appointments you have found it necessary to make in British
Columbia.
in Vancouver's
Island, and you are pleased to observe that you have no
objections to offer to those nominations, provided the salaries
of the officers in question are defrayed from the resources of
Vancouver's Island, and in no degree interfere with the
appointments you have found it necessary to make in British
Columbia.
I beg to inform you in reply that the appointments of Officers
made for the Colony of Vancouver's Island, are entirely
distinct, and do not in any degree interfere with the
appointments you have made in British Columbia
Columbia; that the
services of the Officers mentioned in my letter are
indispensably necessary for conducting the public business of
the Colony, and that their salaries as stated in my letter are
paid by the Hudson's Bay Company, out of the proceeds of Land
sales effected in Vancouver's Island.
Columbia; that the
services of the Officers mentioned in my letter are
indispensably necessary for conducting the public business of
the Colony, and that their salaries as stated in my letter are
paid by the Hudson's Bay Company, out of the proceeds of Land
sales effected in Vancouver's Island.
I have etc.
Minutes by CO staff
Yes—see Mr Blackwood's minute on the draft of our desp. of 7
Feb.