<persName ref="prs:romaine_wg"><surname>Romaine</surname>, <forename>William</forename> <forename>Govett</forename></persName> to <persName ref="prs:merivale_h"><surname>Merivale</surname>, <forename>Herman</forename></persName> 15 January 1859, CO 305:12, no. 562, 1. Romaine addressee Merivale (Permanent Under-Secretary)

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Romaine, William Govett to Merivale, Herman 15 January 1859, CO 305:12, no. 562, 1.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/V595AD01.html. CO 305:12 CO 305 12 562 1 V.I. 1859 received 17 January co_305_12_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 (2), Enclosures (untranscribed) (1), Other documents (2).

Romaine transmits a tracing of the site of HM’s Naval Hospital at Esquimalt. The Admiralty wants storehouses or a Naval Establishment.

The minutes instruct Douglas to reserve the land requested and inform the Admiralty of the CO’s decision.

 Romaine, William Govett
Admiralty
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Romaine to Merivale (Permanent Under-Secretary) 562, CO 305/12, p. 1; received 17 January
Admiralty
15 January 1859

I am commanded by the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to transmit to you a Tracing showing the site of HM's Naval Hospital at Esquimalt, Vancouver's Island, and to request that in laying the same before Secretary Sir E.B. Lytton, you will inform him that, as it is possible, at some future time, that it will be advisable to Erect Storehouses or form a Naval Establishment on the portion of Land marked 67 on the plan, my Lords would be glad to have that portion reserved for Naval purposes.

I am etc. W.G. Romaine
Mr Merivale I conclude the GovrGovernor should be instructed accordingly & the Admiralty informed? VJ 17 Jan
Annex dt. HM Jan 17
Draft reply, Lytton to Douglas, No. 8, 27 January 1859.
Draft, Merivale to Secretary to the Admiralty, 27 January 1859, advising that Douglas had been instructed to reserve the land requested.
"Plan of Land reserved for Naval purposes at Esquimalt Vancouvers Island," marked "Copy of Plan received from the Governor of Vancouvers Island 25 October 1858," signed R. Lambt Baynes, Rear Admiral and Commander in Chief.