<persName ref="prs:taylor_r"><surname>Taylor</surname>, <forename>Richard</forename></persName> to <persName ref="prs:elliot_tf"><surname>Elliot</surname>, <forename>Thomas</forename> <forename>Frederick</forename></persName> 30 August 1853, CO 305:4, no. 8823, 285. Taylor addressee Elliot (Assistant Under-Secretary)

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Taylor, Richard to Elliot, Thomas Frederick 30 August 1853, CO 305:4, no. 8823, 285.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/V535MI02.html. CO 305:04 CO 305 4 8823 285 V.I. 1853 received 31 August co_305_04_00288r.jpg Transcribed from microfilm archives, marked up in Waterloo Script, then transformed into TEI P5 XML.

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Public Offices document. Minutes (2), Enclosures (untranscribed) (3), Other documents (1).

Taylor writes to Elliot to respond to Elliot’s earlier request to be supplied with copies of the Form of Instrument used to to appoint magistrates to Commissions of the Peace, which he supplies, along with related documents.

In the minutes, Blackwood wonders which of Taylor’s forwarded documents is the proper one to transmit to Douglas.

Of the documents included in the file, the first is a draft letter, from the Colonial Office to the Secretary of the Commission of Peace, that requests the correct form used to appoint magistrates in England; the second is a Form of a Commission of a Peace for Counties in England; and the third is another Form of Commission, but for Municipal Boroughs; and the remainder are parchment copies of the Dedimus and two oaths taken by justices of the peace.

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Crown Office
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Taylor to Elliot (Assistant Under-Secretary) 8823, CO 305/4, p. 285; received 31 August
Crown Office
August 30th 1853 Sir,

The Lord Chancellor's Secretary of Commissions of the Peace having handed to me your letter of the 23rd Instant requesting to be supplied with a copy of the Form of Instrument appointing Magistrates to Commissions of the Peace in this Country, I enclose copy of the form of a Commission of the Peace for Counties, also for Boroughs in England and Wales, and also the form of Dedimus Potestatem and Oaths used and taken by County Magistrates on their qualifying—the same oaths are taken by Borough Magistrates but the Dedimus is not issued for the purpose.

I am, Sir Your obedient Servant J.R. Taylor Chief Clerk T.F. Elliot Esqre &c &c &c
Mr Merivale This draft executes the directions contained in the minutes on the last page of Governor Douglas' despatch 6979—but I have delayed passing it on till yr return to the Office as I was puzzled to know which of the forms sent us from the Crown Office is the proper one to supply the Governor with. Perhaps you can decide the point. ABd 16 Sepr
Draft, Colonial Office to the Secretary of the Commission of Peace, Lord Chancellors Office, 23 August 1853, asking that copies of the correct form of instructions used for the appointment of magistrates in England be forwarded to the Colonial Office.
Copy of the Borough Commission—not that extraordinary absurdity the County commission—and also of the two oaths—not of the dedimus (which is the last parchment) for that is superseded by the Governor's Commission. HM
1. Form of a Commission of the Peace for Counties in England and Wales.
2. Form of Commission of Peace, Municipal Boroughs.
3. Parchment copies of the Dedimus and two oaths taken by justices of the peace.