<persName ref="prs:douglas_j"><surname>Douglas</surname>, <forename>James</forename></persName> to <persName ref="prs:lytton_egeb"><surname>Lytton</surname>, <forename>Edward</forename> <forename>George</forename> <forename>Earle</forename> <forename>Bulwer</forename></persName> 30 November 1858, CO 60:1, no. 1055, 468. Douglas addressee Lytton

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Despatch to London. Minutes (2), Other documents (1).

Douglas reports several murders by white men engaged in mining pursuits. He regrets that with no penal settlement within reach he does not know how to dispose of the convicts. Douglas enquires about permission to send convicts to penal colonies in Australia and how the expense would be defrayed.

The minutes recommend punishment of imprisonment with hard labour in the country where the offences were committed.

Enclosed is a draft reply from Lytton to Douglas informing him that no British Colony remains available for the reception of offenders.

 Douglas, James
Victoria, Vancouver's Island
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No. 39, Judicial 1055, CO 60/1, p. 468; received 29 January 1859
Victoria, Vancouver's Island
30 November 1858 Sir,

Several murders having been committed in British Columbia, by white men engaged in mining pursuits, and it having been foundexpensive expensive, not only to bring them to trial, which has nevertheless been in every case accomplished, but also impossible to carry out the sentence of the law in cases where criminals are sentenced to transportation for life, for the reason that there is no penal settlement within reach, and that I have no means of forming a settlement for that purpose on this coast.

I am therefore much perplexed about the disposal of convicts of that class, and wish to learn if HerMajesty's Majesty's Government will permit their removal to any penal settlement in Australia, and how the expense of their removal is to be defrayed. is to be defrayed. = sentence for transportation Cf. footnote in Douglas to Lytton, 12 October 1858, No. 3, 12721, CO 60/1, p. 213.

I have etc. James Douglas Governor
Mr Elliot ABd 31 Jany
This despatch has accidentally remained unanswered. The reply however rests on the general established practice of the Country. It is that no British Colony remains available for the reception of offenders sentenced to Penal Servitude or Transportation in any places out of the United Kingdom and that the only resourse available for their punishment is imprisonment with hard labor in the Country where their offences are committed. TFE 29 July C J 29 N 1-8
Draft reply, Newcastle to Douglas, No. 10, 5 August 1859.