Colonial Despatches
The colonial despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871
Public Offices document
Hamilton, George Alexander to Merivale, Herman 15 August 1859, CO 60:6, no. 8187, 195.
Abstract
Public Offices document.
Minutes (1).
Hamilton updates Merivale that Douglas's request for a postage stamp design for the British Columbia colony has been approved, and that
the Agents General for Crown Colonies have been authorized to procure a Die, and to forward…one thousand sheets of stamps, according to the Pattern and of a yellow colour, as requested, together with three dozen obliterating Dies, and the other Articles mentioned in [Douglas's] Despatch.
Hamilton to Merivale (Permanent Under-Secretary)
Treasury Chambers
15 August 1859
Sir,
In reply to your Letter of the 6th Inst., enclosing
a copy of the Despatch from the Governor of British Columbia,
submitting a Design for a Postage Stamp for the use of that
Colony, I am directed by the Lords Commissioners of Her
Majesty's Treasury to acquaint you, for the information of the
Duke of Newcastle, that the Agents General for Crown Colonies
have been authorized to procure a Die, and to forward to the
Governor of
of British Columbia, one thousand sheets of stamps,
according to the Pattern and of a yellow colour, as requested,
together with three dozen obliterating Dies, and the other
Articles mentioned in the Despatch.
of British Columbia, one thousand sheets of stamps,
according to the Pattern and of a yellow colour, as requested,
together with three dozen obliterating Dies, and the other
Articles mentioned in the Despatch.