<persName ref="prs:lewis"><surname>Lewis</surname>, <forename>George</forename> <forename>C.</forename></persName> to <persName ref="prs:douglas_j"><surname>Douglas</surname>, <forename>James</forename></persName> 16 July 1860, LAC RG7:G8C/2, 293. Lewis addressee Douglas

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Lewis, George C. to Douglas, James 16 July 1860, LAC RG7:G8C/2, 293.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/V607027.html. LAC RG7:G8C/2 LAC RG7 G8C/2 293 27 V.I. 1860 rg7_g8c_02_00170r.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) (1).

 Lewis, George C.
Downing Street
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No. 27 LAC, RG7, G8C/2, p. 293 (CO 410/1, p. 278)
Downing Street
16 July 1860 Sir,

I have had before me your despatch No. 16 of the 28th of March last, accompanied by an address from the House of Assembly relative to the price of Land in Vancouver Island.

You have already learned from the Duke of Newcastle's despatchdespatch No. 26 of the 28th Ultimo that Her Majesty's Government have no objection to the proposed adoption of the price of 4s/2d per acre. I must explain however that it is impossible to authorize you to adopt this, as a liberal conformity with the terms of the Address would require, as a maximum price. A maximum price forfor all Crown Land cannot with propriety be established by law. What you are at liberty to do is to announce the sum of 4s/2d per acre as the price at which all ordinary rural lands may be exposed to auction, and as soon as they have been once so offered to sale without being purchased, they may be sold to anyone who applies for them at the rate of 4s/2d as a fixed price, withoutwithout being subjected again to auction.

With regard to the terms on which land may be occupied with a right of preemption, you have been apprized, the the Duke of Newcastles former despatch No. 23 of the 7th of May, that so far as regards British Columbia, His Grace suspended his opinion until he should receive aa report from you on Captain Clarke's scheme. For the same reason the adoption of a decision on the question in Vancouver's Island must likewise be suspended, as it is desirable that, unless there should be some very special reason against it, the practice adopted in one Colony should also be established in the other.

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On the general subject of the disposal of lands and of the provision to be made against abuses in the occupation of them, I enclose for your information a useful report from the Commission of Colonial Lands and Emigration.

I have etc. G.C. Lewis
T.W.C. Murdoch, Emigration Commission, to Rogers, 9 June 1860.