Colonial Despatches
The colonial despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871
Despatch from London
Cardwell, Edward to
Kennedy, Arthur 30 December 1865, NAC :, 298.
Abstract
Cardwell, Edward to
Kennedy, Arthur 30 December 1865, NAC :, 298.
Despatch from London.
Other documents (3).
No. 74
30th December 1865
Sir,
With reference to my Despatch, No. 57, of the 11th of October last,
transmitting Copies of Correspondence with the Treasury and the Post
Office, as far as it had then proceeded, on the regulation of the Post
in Vancouver Island,I
I have the honor to enclose, for your information,
the accompanying Copy of a further communication from the Treasury.
I have the honor to enclose, for your information,
the accompanying Copy of a further communication from the Treasury.
You will see that the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury feel that
there would be great inconvenience in an interference with this subject
by the Government at home, and I quite share this feeling.
If the Legislature refuse to pass the laws necessary for
establishing a postal system, it will be yourduty
duty to exert such
authority as in the opinion of your Law Officers you legally possess to
supply the want of Legislation. But if you should find that your lawful
powers as Governor are not sufficient to prevent public inconvenience,
it will be better that you should leave the Community to suffer the
consequences imposed upon them by the legislation or non-legislation of
their Representatives than that you should incur the responsibility of
any proceedingswhich
which are not warranted by Law.
duty to exert such
authority as in the opinion of your Law Officers you legally possess to
supply the want of Legislation. But if you should find that your lawful
powers as Governor are not sufficient to prevent public inconvenience,
it will be better that you should leave the Community to suffer the
consequences imposed upon them by the legislation or non-legislation of
their Representatives than that you should incur the responsibility of
any proceedingswhich
which are not warranted by Law.
Other documents included in the file
Copy, Childers to Rogers, 30 December 1865, concerning a "deficiency in proper Postal Regulations" at Vancouver Island.
Copy, Lord Stanley to the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury, 25 November 1865, providing a copy of rules from the Postmaster.
"A Bill Entitled an Act to establish the Postal Service."