<persName ref="prs:seymour"><surname>Seymour</surname>, <forename>Hobart</forename></persName> to <persName ref="prs:cardwell"><surname>Cardwell</surname>, <forename>Edward</forename></persName> 8 September 1864, CO 60:19, no. 10600, 145. Seymour addressee Cardwell

Published by Jim Hendrickson and the University of Victoria.

Seymour, Hobart to Cardwell, Edward 8 September 1864, CO 60:19, no. 10600, 145.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/B64236.html. CO 60:19 CO 60 19 10600 145 36 B.C. 1864 received 17 November co_60_19_00147r.jpg Transcribed from microfilm archives, marked up in Waterloo Script, then transformed into TEI P5 XML.

The project glossary items have xml:id attributes beginning with trm_, and we use a trm: prefix to refer to them when linking from term elements.

We link to orgs in orgs/organizations.xml using the org: prefix.

We link to places in places.xml using the plc: prefix.

We link to people in bios/*.xml using the prs: prefix.

We link to vessels in vessels/*.xml using the vsl: prefix.

We link to other documents in the collection using the cdc: prefix.

The cdt (ColDesp Document Type) prefix used on catRef/target points to a central taxonomy in the includes file.

We link to other documents in the collection using the cdc: prefix.

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

Seymour acknowledges receipt of a circular stating that if any Chief Justice who has a commission from the Admiralty relinquishes their Colonial Judicial Appointment then they must also surrender their commission as Judge of the Vice Admiralty Court. Seymour reminds Cardwell that his predecessor, Douglas, held this position but Seymour has not.

 Seymour, Hobart Cardwell, Edward Added abstract. Inserted revisionDesc.
No. 36 10600, CO 60/19, p. 145; received 17 November 8th September 1864 Sir,

I have had the honor to receive your circular despatch No. 2 of the 30th of June directing me to take care that when any Chief Justice or other Judge holding a direct Commission from the Admiralty may relinquish his Colonial Judicial Appointment, he should also surrender his Commission as Judge of the Vice Admiralty Court. The samerule rule is to apply to Officers holding appointments from the Admiralty as Registrars and Marshals of that Court.

2. Your orders shall of course be obeyed, but your despatch reminds me that my predecessor, Sir James Douglas, holds the only Commission issued for a Vice Admiral of this Colony. I have received none.

I have the honor to be Sir Your most obedient humble Servant Frederick Seymour
Mr Elliot I think that this Dispatch may be answered by referring Mr Seymour to the 3rd Sec of the Vice Admiralty Courts Act which was sent to him in the Circular Dispatch now acknowledged which provides that in a vacancy occurring in the Office of Vice Admiral the Governor of the Colony for the time being ex Officio assumes the Office of V. Admiral and observe that that provision of the Act supersedes the necessity of granting Commission in any specific case: Add that in order that there should be no doubt as to the Office of V. Admiral having duly become vacant, Sir J. Douglas was requested on his retirement from the GovtGovernment of Bh Columbia to resign the Appointment; which he formally did and that he was requested to take measures for recovering the Commission of V. Admiral which had been granted to him and which he represented that he had left in the Colony. If it should be still in Mr Seymour's hands it will be desirable that he should return it to this Office in order to prevent the existence of two distinct authorities bearing on the same point. GG 19 Nov
Draft. TFE 19/11
Draft reply, Cardwell to Seymour, Separate, 24 November 1864, describing the arrangement with Douglas regarding his appointment to the Vice Admiralty and requesting that if the instrument of Douglas’s appointment is in Seymour’s possession it is desirable that Seymour returns it to the Colonial Office.