Colonial Despatches
The colonial despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871
Public Offices document
Hamilton, George Alexander to Merivale, Herman 19 September 1859, CO 60:6, no. 9454, 221.
Abstract
Public Offices document.
Minutes (1), Enclosures (untranscribed) (1), Other documents (2).
Hamilton transmits a report on
the Establishment of a Government Assay Office and Refinery in British Columbia,noting that
the arrangements suggested by the Master of the Mint appear…to be judicious.
Hamilton to Merivale (Permanent Under-Secretary)
Treasury Chambers
19 September 1859
Sir,
With further reference to your letter of the 11th
Ultimo, I am directed by the Lords Commissioners of Her
Majesty's Treasury to transmit herewith Copy of a Report
from the Master of the Mint on the Subject of the Establishment
of a Government Assay Office and Refinery in British Columbia,
and I am to request that you will inform the Duke of Newcastle
that the arrangements suggested by the Master of the Mint appear
to My Lords to be judicious, and if His Grace should be of the
same opinion My Lords will authorize Mr Graham to engage the
services of the persons recommended by him on the conditions
proposed and to provide the necessary stores &c. Their
Lordships consider that
that the best course to follow in regard to
the preliminary expenses will be to advance the sum of £2000,
suggested by the Master of the Mint, out of the grant for British
Columbia, on the understanding that the amount will be repaid
from the Colonial Revenue.
that the best course to follow in regard to
the preliminary expenses will be to advance the sum of £2000,
suggested by the Master of the Mint, out of the grant for British
Columbia, on the understanding that the amount will be repaid
from the Colonial Revenue.
Minutes by CO staff
Mr Merivale
As the Treasury think that the arrangements prepared by the Master of the Mint are judicious it may perhaps be ansd that the Duke of Newcastle Concurs also in them, & would be glad to have them at once carried into effect.
As the Treasury think that the arrangements prepared by the Master of the Mint are judicious it may perhaps be ansd that the Duke of Newcastle Concurs also in them, & would be glad to have them at once carried into effect.
Send the Governor Copy of the correspce in
continuation of desph No 22 of 19 Sepr.
ABd
22 Sep
Other documents included in the file
Documents enclosed with the main document (not transcribed)
Thomas Graham, Royal Mint, to Treasury, 9 September 1859,
discussing the establishment of an assay office in British Columbia.
Other documents included in the file
Draft reply, Newcastle to Douglas, No. 27, 29 September 1859.
[Note: This is misfiled as a Vancouver Island document and appears
in CO 305/12, p. 297].