<persName ref="prs:farrer_th"><surname>Farrer</surname>, <forename>Thomas</forename> <forename>Henry</forename></persName> to <persName ref="prs:adderley_cb"><surname>Adderley</surname>, <forename>Charles</forename> <forename>Bowyer</forename></persName> 11 February 1867, CO 60:31, no. 1501, 3. Farrer addressee Under-Secretary of State

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Farrer, Thomas Henry to Adderley, Charles Bowyer 11 February 1867, CO 60:31, no. 1501, 3.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/B675TA01.html. CO 60:31 CO 60 31 1501 3 B.C. 1867received 12 February co_60_31_00004r.jpg Transcribed from microfilm archives, marked up in Waterloo Script, then transformed into TEI P5 XML.

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Public Offices document. Minutes (5), Other documents (2).

Regarding supplies requisitioned in 1865 and stored at lighthouses on Vancouver Island, on behalf of the Board of Trade, Farrer asks for payment for these supplies before the end of the financial year and suggests a method to insure this deadline is met. Blackwood minutes the options available to repay this debt given the time constraint. Carnarvon minutes his approval of having the Crown Agents pay this debt directly and then prohibiting any agents taking actions for Vancouver Island requiring funds from the Colonial Government. Included documents describe the Colonial Office staff contacting the Board of Trade and Crown Agents regarding payment for supplies for lighthouses on Vancouver Island.

Farrer, Thomas Henry
Board of Trade Whitehall
Adderley, Charles Bowyer Added abstract. Inserted revisionDesc.
Farrer to Under-Secretary of State 1501, CO 60/31, p. 3; received 12 February
Board of Trade Whitehall
11th February 1867 Sir,

I am directed by the Board of Trade to acknowledge your letter of the 4th Instant, stating that the Governor of British Columbia, has been requested to cause repayment to be made of the sum of £212.16.10, incurred by the Board of Trade for the supply of Stores for the Lighthouses in Vancouvers Island.

The Board of Trade direct me to observe that these stores were supplied on the requisitions to theCrown Crown Agents of the Colonies accompanying your letters of the 15th July 1865 and 12th June last, and that the expenses incurred have been advanced out of the vote for Lighthouses abroad.

It is very desirable that the amount advanced, should be repaid to the vote before the end of the financial year, and I am therefore to suggest that the Crown Agents for the Colonies may be instructed to pay the sum advanced (£212.16.10) as has hitherto been done in former cases, for expenses incurred for the Lighthouses in Vancouvers Island.

I have the honor to be Sir Your obedient Servant, T.H. Farrer
Mr Elliot The financial year ends, as you know, on the 31 March next. It is clear that the funds for paying this claim cannot be procured from V. Couver Island by that time. It is also certain that the Crown Agents have no money in hand belonging to V.C.I. out of which this claim can be satisfied. We must, in this case, either instruct the Agents to pay the debt out of other monies, or apply to the Treasury. I think the first alternative is the preferable one. ABd 13 Feby
I have ascertained that the V.C.I. GovtGovernment is indebted £480 to the Crown Agents. ABd
Tell the Crown Agents to pay; and then send out peremptory orders for remitting to them the aggregate amount of the advances made by them for Vancouver, and state that until that money shall be received, the Crown Agents will be prohibited from undertaking any Vancouver servicesfor for which requisitions may come from the Colonial Government? TFE 14 Feby CBA 15/2
I am afraid that this is the only course to be taken, but I sd wish to see the dph & with it a statement of the present indebtedness of B.C. & V.C.I. C 16 Feby
Colonial Office to Board of Trade, 14 March 1867, stating the Crown Agents had been instructed to pay the debt.
Colonial Office to Crown Agents, 14 March 1867, forwarding copy of the lighthouse account and requesting payment of same.
It is important to the Board of Trade to get this money at once. The Governor requested that the Agents should procure the supplies, so that we may with propriety instruct them to pay the cost. TFE 13/3 B&C 14/3