Colonial Despatches
The colonial despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871
Public Offices document
Pennell, Henry Cholmondeley to Fortescue, Chichester 20 August 1859, CO 60:5, no. 7763, 393.
Abstract
Public Offices document.
Minutes (3), Enclosures (untranscribed) (1), Other documents (3).
Pennell, on the Admiralty's behalf, requests that the Colonial Office repay
Three Thousand, Six Hundred and Forty three Pounds, Two Shillings and Eight Pence…to the credit of Naval Services,for
Expenses for passages of a Special Nature,that is, the cost of transporting passengers to British Columbia. Elliot minutes
that it may be a question for future consideration whether the expense of conveying this force with their families should be provided for next year on the Naval Estimate in the same manner as the transport of other Troops taken to the Colonies.
Pennell to Under-Secretary of State
Expenses for passages of a Special Nature, not analagous
to the passages for which Quarterly Claim is, in future, to
be made on the Colonial Office, having been incurred by the
Naval Department, as shown on the other side, I am commanded
by My Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to request
request that
you will move the Duke of Newcastle to cause the amount Three
Thousand, Six Hundred and Forty three Pounds, Two Shillings
and Eight Pence to be repaid to the credit of Naval Services,
in the usual manner.
request that
you will move the Duke of Newcastle to cause the amount Three
Thousand, Six Hundred and Forty three Pounds, Two Shillings
and Eight Pence to be repaid to the credit of Naval Services,
in the usual manner.
Documents enclosed with the main document (not transcribed)
Statement detailing the number of passengers transported
to British Columbia, showing a total cost of £3.643.2.8.
Minutes by CO staff
We shall have eventually to recommend payment to the
Treasury; but I would begin by asking the Admiralty
whether the bulk of this party consists of Sappers
& Miners. If the answer be in the affirmative, I
shall say in writing to the Treasury that it may be a
question for future consideration whether the expense
of conveying this force with their families should
be provided for next year on the Naval Estimate in
the same manner as the transport of other Troops
taken to the Colonies, or whether there is sufficient
reason for dealing with the case exceptionally and
providing for it in a distinct estimate. I should
add that since it has never heretofore been the custom
to provide on the Colonial Estimates for either the
pay or the conveyance of Troops, it can but have the
effect of throwing an erroneous light on the Estimate
for British Columbia if that Colony alone be treated
differently in this respect from all the other Colonies of the Empire.
Other documents included in the file
Merivale to Secretary to the Admiralty, 20 August 1859,
advising that the party conveyed to British Columbia
consisted principally of Sappers and Miners.
Merivale to G.A. Hamilton, Treasury, 10 September 1859,
advising that a claim from the Admiralty had been received for
the repayment of £3642.28 for the passages of Royal
Engineers and a chaplain and his wife.
Minutes by CO staff
The only object of this draft is to remind the Treasury of an
opinion expressed in a former letter, and to let them know distinctly
that we are not providing for this item in the present Colonial
Estimates.
TFE
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