<persName ref="prs:powles"><surname>Powles</surname>, <forename>J.</forename> <forename>D.</forename></persName> to <persName ref="prs:newcastle"><surname>Pelham-Clinton</surname>, <forename>Henry</forename> <forename>Pelham</forename> <forename>Fiennes</forename></persName> 20 March 1862, CO 60:14, no. 2944, 83. Powles addressee Newcastle

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Powles, J. D. to Pelham-Clinton, Henry Pelham Fiennes 20 March 1862, CO 60:14, no. 2944, 83.The Colonial Despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871, Edition 2.6, ed. James Hendrickson and the Colonial Despatches project. Victoria, B.C.: University of Victoria. https://bcgenesis.uvic.ca/B625MI01.html. CO 60:14 CO 60 14 2944 83 B.C. 1862 received 22 March co_60_14_00084r.jpg Transcribed from microfilm archives, marked up in Waterloo Script, then transformed into TEI P5 XML.

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Public Offices document. Minutes (3), Other documents (1).

Powles, Chairman of the Port Phillip & Colonial Gold Mining Company…in the Colony of Victoria asks Newcastle for information concerning conditions on which Leases of Mineral Ground will be granted in the Colony [of British Columbia]. Blackwood minutes that the information has been published in <ref type="external" target="http://n2t.net/ark:/13960/t60673n3c">Further Papers Relative to the Affairs of British Columbia [Part 3]</ref>, available from the Queen's Printers.

Powles, J. D.
Port Phillip & Colonial Gold Ming Co 35 Bucklersbury, Cheapside E.C.
Pelham-Clinton, Henry Pelham Fiennes Inserted revisionDesc. Added abstract.
Powles to Newcastle 2944, CO 60/14, p. 83; received 22 March
Port Phillip & Colonial Gold Ming Co 35 Bucklersbury, Cheapside E.C.
20 March 1862

I am Chairman of the Port Phillip & Colonial Gold Mining Company, established under Royal Charter, & now working in the Colony of Victoria.

This Company is restricted by its Charter to the Australian Colonies, but some of its members are desirous of examining the question of Mining, on a systematic scale in the Colony of British Columbia.

For this purpose, they contemplate sending out a competent person to examine into the exact state of affairs, before incurring the expense of forming an establishment.

But it is essential for us to know the conditions on which Leases of Mineral Ground will be granted in the Colony.

May I therefore take the liberty to ask the favor of your Grace, to be informed on this point.

I should hardly have ventured to take this liberty, but that I apprehend that it may be considered desirable, on public grounds, to encourage the formation of establishments which may carry on the business of mining in the regular manner in which it is conducted in this country.

I have etc. J.D. Powles
Sir F. Rogers Acquaint the writer that the IIId series of Papers relating to B. Columbia which have been laid before Parlt* contains all the informn he requires and that it is procurable at the Queen's Printers—Messrs Eyre & Spottiswode. ABd 22/3
Yes. (It would be rather desirable that the L & E.C. shdshould be kept up with infn of this kind—and act as referees). FR
*Add—"with one which is about to appear." CF 25 N 26
Draft, Fortescue to Powles, 28 March 1862, advising that a series of papers had been laid before parliament which contained all the information requested, and providing the address where the papers might be obtained.