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Public Offices document. Minutes (2).

Hamilton relates the Treasury’s intended meaning of the letter sent on 30 June 1868 and notes that Seymour is making every effort, as described in the letter from 30 June 1868, to manage British Columbia’s financial situation.

Hamilton, George Alexander
Treasury Chambers
Adderley, Charles Bowyer Added abstract. Inserted revisionDesc.
Hamilton to Under-Secretary of State 8369, CO 60/34, p. 412; received 3 August
Treasury Chambers
1st August 1868 Sir,

The Lords Commissoners of Her Majesty's Treasury have had before them your letter of the 25th ulto, enclosing a correspondence with the Governor of British Columbia relative to the financial condition of the Colony.

I am to state for the information of the Secretary of State that the object of the letter from this Department of June 30th last, was to express the desire of this Board that the attention of the Governorshould should be again drawn to the necessity, in the interests of the Colony, that punctual remittances should be made to this country to meet the liabilities on account of the Loans—even should it be found necessary in adopting this course, to reduce the number of appointments in the Colony and the salaries attached thereto.

As it would appear however by the enclosed Despatch that the Governor is fully alive as to the necessity of retrenchment, My Lords have no further observationsto to make on the subject.

I am, Sir, Your obedient Servant Geo. A. Hamilton
Sir F. Rogers Put by? CC 3 Aug
At once. FR 3/8