<persName ref="prs:newcastle"><surname>Pelham-Clinton</surname>, <forename>Henry</forename> <forename>Pelham</forename> <forename>Fiennes</forename></persName> to <persName ref="prs:douglas_j"><surname>Douglas</surname>, <forename>James</forename></persName> 3 September 1859, LAC RG7:G8C/2, 77. Newcastle addressee Douglas

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Pelham-Clinton, Henry Pelham Fiennes to Douglas, James 3 September 1859, LAC RG7:G8C/2, 77.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/V597109.html. LAC RG7:G8C/2 LAC RG7 G8C/2 77 9 V.I. 1859 rg7_g8c_02_00045r.jpg Transcribed from microfilm archives, marked up in Waterloo Script, then transformed into TEI P5 XML.

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Despatch from London. Enclosures (untranscribed) (2).

Newcastle transmits copies of correspondence, one by the Foreign Office one by the Board of Trade, on matters related to declaring Victoria a free Port.

 Pelham-Clinton, Henry Pelham Fiennes
Downing Street
Douglas, James Inserted revisionDesc with @status="unproofed".Added abstract.
No. 9 LAC, RG7, G8C/2, p. 77 (CO 410/1, p. 220)
Downing Street
3 September 1859 Sir,

With reference to my despatch No. 4 of the 22nd July last declaring Victoria a free Port, and stating that an enquiry was being instituted to ascertain whether the Bonding system exists in Californian Ports, I transmit to you for your information the copy of a letter which has been received from the Foreign Office in reply to the reference which was made on the subject to that Department.

I also transmit to you the copy of a letter on the subject from the Board of Trade, and I have to request that you will furnish me with the explanation which their Lordships require of the statement in your despatch of the 23rd March last, that Articles imported into Vancouvers Island fromfrom Californian Ports are necessarily charged with the Custom duties levied in that State.

I have etc. Newcastle
E. Hammond, Foreign Office, to Merivale, 11 August 1859, on the Bonding system…in the California ports.
T.H. Farrer, Board of Trade, to Merivale, 25 August 1859, on the bonding system in the California Ports, and discrepancy on import duties on Vancouver Island.