<persName ref="prs:carnarvon"><surname>Carnarvon</surname>, </persName> to <persName ref="prs:douglas_j"><surname>Douglas</surname>, <forename>James</forename></persName> 29 April 1859, CO 410:1, 198. Carnarvon (Parliamentary Under-Secretary) addressee Douglas

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Despatch from London.

This document is a letterbook copy of B597057.

 Carnarvon,
Downing Street
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No. 57 CO 410/1, p. 198
Downing Street
29 April 1859 Sir,

I transmit to you herewith the copy of a letter which I have received from Mr John Barnston of Montreal, containing an extract from one [letter] from his son, a canadian Barrister, residing in Vancouvers Island, complaining of his exclusion, as a Colonial Lawyer, from practising in the superior courts of Vancouvers Island, and British Columbia.

Mr Barnston's application that this disqualification may be removed appears to me in itself to be a reasonable one, but it is a matter in which I am unwilling to interfere with your discretion, and I must leave it to you to decide whether his request can properly be complied with. Should you see no objection to the admission of Lawyers educated either in Canada or in the British Colonies generally the local legislature has the power in Vancouver's Island to effect this, as I have pointed out in my recent despatch No. 45 of the 9th April on a similar application from the Scottish Solicitors, and you will be at liberty to introduce the necessary measure for the purpose. In British Columbia all that would be necessary would be the requisite amendment of the Judges order in Court transmitted with your despatch No. 65 of the 6th January which provides for their temporary admission only.

I have etc. Carnarvon In the absence of Sir E.B. Lytton