Colonial Despatches
The colonial despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871
Despatch from London
Carnarvon, Earl to
Kennedy, Arthur 16 November 1866, NAC :, 483.
No. 21
16th November 1866
Sir,
I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your Despatches Nos.
73 and 74 dated respectively the 8th and the 11th of September last.
I do not fully understand from the communications before me, theprecise
precise nature and circumstances of the case. The Governor of Vancouver
Island has been authorized by former Despatches from the Secretary of
State to expend the Revenues at the disposal of the Crown, so far as
they will go, in defraying the most urgent public wants of the Colony.
Those very instructions were framed on the assumption that no public
moneys under the control of the Legislature would be expended without
the requisite Legislative sanction. If they have nevertheless been so
expended, it will havebeen
been a grave irregularity on which I shall desire
to receive a full report, and for which it will be necessary to seek a
remedy at the hands of the new Legislature of the United Colony.
precise nature and circumstances of the case. The Governor of Vancouver
Island has been authorized by former Despatches from the Secretary of
State to expend the Revenues at the disposal of the Crown, so far as
they will go, in defraying the most urgent public wants of the Colony.
Those very instructions were framed on the assumption that no public
moneys under the control of the Legislature would be expended without
the requisite Legislative sanction. If they have nevertheless been so
expended, it will havebeen
been a grave irregularity on which I shall desire
to receive a full report, and for which it will be necessary to seek a
remedy at the hands of the new Legislature of the United Colony.