Colonial Despatches
The colonial despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871
Despatch from London
Pelham-Clinton, 5th Duke of Newcastle Henry Pelham Fiennes to
Douglas, Sir James 1 March 1861, LAC :, 416.
Abstract
Pelham-Clinton, 5th Duke of Newcastle Henry Pelham Fiennes to
Douglas, Sir James 1 March 1861, LAC :, 416.
Despatch from London.
No. 47
Downing Street
1 March 1861
Sir,
I have to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch No. 50 dated
the 5th of December last reporting the completion of the Fisgard and Race Rock Lighthouses and representing the circumstances under which
you had found it necessary to incur an additional expenditure of one
thousand pounds on these Works.
It
It is gratifiying to Her Majesty's Government to learn that, with
the valuable aid rendered by the Admiral on the Station, the
Lighthouses have been constructed in a manner creditable to all
concerned in the undertaking.
The Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade have been
authorized to accept such bills as you draw on account of this service,
in excess of the amount already sanctioned to the extent of one
thousand pounds.
You
You will bear in mind that a moiety of the whole expenditure on
account of these Works is to be ultimately contributed from Colonial
Funds in conformity with the intimation to you in Sir Edward Lytton's
Despatch No. 63 of the 11th of May 1859.