<persName ref="prs:seymour_f"><surname>Seymour</surname>, <forename>Frederick</forename></persName> to <persName ref="prs:carnarvon"><surname>Carnarvon</surname>, </persName> 29 April 1867, CO 60:28, no. 7981, 113. Seymour addressee Carnarvon (Parliamentary Under-Secretary)

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Seymour, Frederick to Carnarvon, 29 April 1867, CO 60:28, no. 7981, 113.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/B67072.html. CO 60:28 CO 60 28 7981 113 72 B.C. 1867received 16 August co_60_28_00114r.jpg Transcribed from microfilm archives, marked up in Waterloo Script, then transformed into TEI P5 XML.

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Despatch to London. Minutes (3), Enclosures (untranscribed) (1), Other documents (1).

Seymour forwards a bill titled An Ordinance to assimilate the Law affecting the Limitation of Certain Causes of Actions and Suits and encloses a letter from the Attorney General opposing the bill. Holland’s minute describes the Attorney General’s and Holland’s reasons for opposing the bill and advises for section five to be amended before being confirmed.

Seymour, Frederick Carnarvon, Added summary of draft reply. Added abstract. Inserted revisionDesc.
No. 72 7981, CO 60/28, p. 113; received 16 August 29th April 1867 My Lord,

I have the honor to forward an Authenticated Copy of a Bill passed by the Legislative Council of this Colony at its recent Session. It is entitled;An An Ordinance to assimilate the Law affecting the Limitation of Certain Causes of Actions and Suits.

2. The Attorney General as will be seen by the enclosed letter, is much opposed to the proposed measure, and doubting its expediency myself, I have reserved the Bill for the signification of Her Majesty's pleasure.

I have the honor to be, My Lord, Your most obedient, humble Servant Frederick Seymour
Mr Holland CC 17 Aug
Mr Elliot The Attorney General objects, & very properly as it appears to me, to giving a debtor in British Columbia a privilege which he is especially debarred from by the law of the Country where the debt was incurred, though at the same time he is relying upon that very law as a defence to an action to recover that debt. The B. Columbian time of limitation, after which a debt cannot be recovered, is say 6 years. The Californian is say 2 years, but then the benefit of that limitatn is only given to those who have resided the two years in California. By this Ordce, as it is now framed, the debtor who has incurred the debt in California is to be allowed, fairly enough, to prove as a defence, that the Californian time of limitation—say 2 years—has expired, but then by the latter part of Clause 5 he is to be allowed to do this though he has not resided the 2 years in California. Curiously enough the like clause was allowed in the Vancouver Island Act of 1861.

I would not disallow this Act, as the only obnoxious part is the last paragraph in sec. 5, but the GovrGovernor should be informed that an amendment is required before the Act can be confirmed. And he shdshould be instructed to procure such amendment.

HTH 19/8
Draft to that effect. TFE 31/8
H.P.P. Crease, Attorney General, to Seymour, 11 April 1867, reporting on the ordinance as per despatch.
Draft reply, Buckingham to Seymour, No. 52, 5 September 1867 explaining support for the Ordinance to assimilate the Law affecting Limitation of Certain Causes of Actions and Suits if section five is amended and describing the limitations of section five of the ordinance.