<persName ref="prs:sclaterbooth_g"><surname>Sclater Booth</surname>, <forename>G.</forename></persName> to <persName ref="prs:adderley_cb"><surname>Adderley</surname>, <forename>Charles</forename> <forename>Bowyer</forename></persName> 30 March 1868, CO 60:34, no. 3274, 366. Sclater Booth addressee Under-Secretary of State

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Public Offices document. Minutes (2), Other documents (1).

Sclater Booth informs the Colonial Office that the Treasury has approved the revenue and expenditure estimates for 1866 and 1867 and the appropriation ordinances no.13 and no.27 of 1867. Sclater Booth discusses the measures British Columbia’s government is expected to make to bring expenditures within the bounds of the revenue. Cox’s minute summarizes the despatch from the Treasury and relates the impact of British Columbia’s financial difficulties on the governing process on the colony. Rogers’s minute suggests how to correspond with Seymour regarding Sclater Booth’s despatch.

Sclater Booth, G.
Treasury Chambers
Adderley, Charles Bowyer Added summary of draft reply. Added abstract. Inserted revisionDesc.
Sclater Booth to Under-Secretary of State 3274, CO 60/34, p. 366; received 31 March
Treasury Chambers
30th March 1868 Sir,

The Lords Commissoners of Her Majesty's Treasury have had before them your letter of the 19th ulto enclosing copies of two Despatches from the Governor of British Columbia; the first enclosing the Estimates of Revenue and Expenditure for 1867 and the Appropriation Ordinance No 13 1867, and the second, the SupplementaryEstimates Estimates for 1866 with an ordinance No 27, 1867.

I am to state, for the information of the Secretary of State, that adverting to the date at which these Estimates have been submitted to this Board—it appears to My Lords that there is no alternative but to signify their approval of them.

They observe with regret that the same sum is inserted for repayment ofTemporary Temporary Loans as that specified in the estimates of 1866—and, although some explanation is afforded in the Report of the Assistant Colonial Secretary (which is enclosed)—from the financial difficulties which have resulted from the union of the two Colonies—they trust that the Secretary of State will call the attention of the Governor to the extreme importance of bringing the Expenditure within the Revenue—andthat that that officer should be urged to make further reductions in salaries and other items of expenditure so as to relieve the Colony from this temporary liability.

With this understanding My Lords will not refuse their assent to the Estimates vizt: Revenue $675,350 Expenditure 701,710 to the Ordinance No 13 Mar 11 1867, appropriating the sum of $566,658.30 for the year 1867, and to the OrdinanceNo 27 No 27 Apr 2, 1867 appropriating a further sum of $96,918.11 for the service of the year 1866.

I am, Sir, Your obedient Servant G. Sclater Booth
Sir F. Rogers The Estimates for 1867 must be sanctioned & also the Supplementary ones for 1866—& the two Appropriation Ordinances must be confirmed.

The Financial state of B. Columbia is in abeyance—& it appears from letters from GovrGovernor Seymour to the two leading Representative Members of the Council (the letters are in a newspaper of Jany) that GovrGovernor Seymour does not intend to call the Council together until he receives some important financial despatches from the D. of Buckingham which he is expecting. The result is that whatever payments are being made out of the local Ty are being made without Estimate, Vote of Council or Appropriation Ordinance. Whether GovrGovernor Seymour would proceed with his Estimates on the receipt of His Grace's despatch of the 14 Dec. remains to be seen. But I should think not. The postal question is also in abeyance.

CC 1 April
I wdwould send this out and request a definite report upon the retrenchments whwhich have been made in order to meet the difficulties of the Colony, and the periods at [which] they were made—whether by way of reducing salaries & offices, or by way of stopping public works, and also the steps whwhich have been taken to increase the Revenue either by imposing fresh Taxes or by providing for their better collection. FR 2/4 CBA 4/4 B&C 7/4
Draft reply, Buckingham to Seymour, No. 22, 10 April 1868 conveying “Her Majesty's confirmation and allowance of the Ordinances in question,” transmitting “a letter from the Lords Commissoners of the Treasury,” and requesting reports on how Seymour is reducing expenditures and increasing the revenue of British Columbia.