<persName ref="prs:seymour_f"><surname>Seymour</surname>, <forename>Frederick</forename></persName> to <persName ref="prs:grenville_r"><surname>Grenville</surname>, <forename>Richard</forename></persName> 27 September 1867, CO 60:29, no. 11760, 251. Seymour addressee Buckingham

Published by Jim Hendrickson and the University of Victoria.

Seymour, Frederick to Grenville, Richard 27 September 1867, CO 60:29, no. 11760, 251.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/B67130.html. CO 60:29 CO 60 29 11760 251 130 B.C. 1867received 3 December co_60_29_00251r.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), Enclosures (untranscribed) (3).

Seymour forwards No. 13. An Ordinance to appropriate the sum of five hundred and sixty six thousand six hundred and fifty eight dollars and thirty cents out of the General Revenue of the Colony for the contingent Service of the year 1867 and reports from the Attorney General and Auditor. Minutes by Cox and Rogers discuss the finances of British Columbia, which Seymour’s forwarded ordinance describes. Rogers further minutes that the despatch should be retained at the Colonial Office for the time being.

Seymour, Frederick
Victoria
Grenville, Richard Added abstract. Inserted revisionDesc.
No. 130 11760, CO 60/29, p. 251; received 3 December
Victoria
27th September 1867 My Lord Duke,

I have the honor to forward an authenticated and two plain copies of an Ordinance of the recent Session of the Legislature of this Colony, entitled;No. 13. No. 13. An Ordinance to appropriate the sum of five hundred and sixty six thousand six hundred and fifty eight dollars and thirty cents out of the General Revenue of the Colony for the contingent Service of the year 1867.

2. The amount herein voted is considerably less than has hitherto been supplied for the Mainland Colony alone.

3. I

3. I enclose the reports of the Attorney General and of the Auditor.

I have the honor to be, My Lord Duke, Your most obedient, humble Servant Frederick Seymour
Sir F. Rogers Governor Seymour here sends home his Estimates & Appropriation Ordinance for 1867—the latter having passed as far back as March last. The 3 Dec is rather late to receive the Estimates for the year, & tho' the union of the two Colonies at so late a period of last year no doubt prevented an earlier passing of the Estimates, it need not have been necessary that it should take so many months to send them home when passed—especially with the very meagre information supplied.

It appears that the Estimated Revenue for 1867 is $675,350, against $592,459 the revenue of 1865—it further appears that the estimated Expenditure for 1867 is $701,710—against $1,096,036 for the two Colonies in 1865.

The Auditor Generals memo shews in what respects the Estimate of Expenditure differs from previous Expenditure.

I see nothing calling for special observation in the Items—& it is now rather late to deal with them.

But I believe the Finances of B. Columbia are under consideration.

CC 9/12
Mr Adderley There can be no doubt—considering the state of the Finances of B.C. that this statement shdshould have reached England long ago. Now, I think, that having been delayed from March to September, the GovrGovernor ought to have accompanied [it] by a Statement informing the Secretary of State how far the estimate has been borne out by the experience of the 2 or 3 first quarters of the year.

The main point is the comparison of Totals Revenue $ Exp 1865 592,459 1,096,036 1867 675,350 701,710 excess 82,891 394,326 decrease 82,891 477,217
shewing a difference of 477,217 dollars and this, as I understand does not shew the full reduction of expenditures, because the estimates of 1867 include $170,000 in repayment of Temporary Loans, while nothing of the kind is included in the expenditure of 1865.

The great reduction is of course in public works—where the difference of the two Estimates is about $300,000.

This of course will have to go to Treasury eventually. But the information which it gives should first be embodied in the statement whwhich is now being prepared respecting B.C. finance. I wdwould therefore request that it may be retained for this purpose.

FR
H.P.P. Crease, Attorney General, to Seymour, 17 May 1867, reporting on the ordinance as per despatch.
Robert Ker, Auditor General, 22 June 1867, remarking on the estimates for 1867.
Printed copy of colonial estimates for British Columbia, 1867.