<persName ref="prs:grenville_r"><surname>Grenville</surname>, <forename>Richard</forename></persName> to <persName ref="prs:seymour_f"><surname>Seymour</surname>, <forename>Frederick</forename></persName> 7 December 1868, NAC RG7:G8C/15, 526. Buckingham & Chandos addressee Seymour

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Grenville, Richard to Seymour, Frederick 7 December 1868, NAC RG7:G8C/15, 526.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/B687105.html. NAC RG7:G8C/15 NAC RG7 G8C/15 526 105 B.C. 1868 rg7_g8c_15_00294r.jpg Transcribed from microfilm archives, marked up in Waterloo Script, then transformed into TEI P5 XML.

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Despatch from London. Other documents (1), Marginalia (1).

Buckingham approves Seymour’s Estimates of Revenue and Expenditure for 1868 and conveys Her Majesty's gracious confirmation and allowance of the ordinance entitled An Ordinance to appropriate the sum of $358,923.5 out of the general revenue of [British Columbia] for the contingent service of the year 1868. Buckingham transmits a despatch addressed to the Governor of the Straits Settlements relating the preferred form of Estimates and financial Returns for the future.

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No. 105 NAC, RG7, G8C/15, p. 526 (CO 398/5, p. 221) 7 December 1868 Sir,

I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatches of the numbers and dates noted in the Margin m enclosing Returns exhibiting the financial condition of British Columbia.

I have also received your despatch No. 72 ofthe the 28 July enclosing the Estimates of Revenue and Expenditure for 1868, and an Ordinance No. 12, 1 May 1868 passed by the Legislative Council and entitled "An Ordinance to appropriate the sum of $358,923.5 out of the general revenue of the Colony for the contingent service of the year 1868."

I have to express my approval of those Estimates and to convey to you Her Majesty's gracious confirmation andallowance allowance of the Ordinance No. 12 of 1868 making provision for expenditure which they involve.

I transmit to you for your guidance and for adoption so far as it is applicable to British Columbia a printed copy of a despatch addressed to the Governor of the Straits Settlements laying down the rules which are to be followed in that Colony in the preparation ofEstimates Estimates and financial Returns for the future.

I have the honor to be Sir, Your most obedient humble Servant Buckingham & Chandos
Printed copy of a despatch to the Governor of the Straits Settlements stating the rules to be followed there in preparation of Estimates and Financial Returns for the future.
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