Colonial Despatches
The colonial despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871
Public Offices document
Hawes, Benjamin to Fortescue, Chichester 27 October 1859, CO 60:6, no. 10685, 317.
Abstract
Public Offices document.
Minutes (4), Other documents (3).
Hawes provides further details on a variety of expense claims, including one for
Medical Stores supplied by the Army Medical Department exclusively to the Detachment of Royal Engineers proceeding to British Columbia.
Hawes to Under-Secretary of State
I am directed by Mr Secretary Herbert, to acknowledge the
receipt of your letter of the 3rd Ultimo, and to acquaint you
that the sum of £49.19.0 referred to in the letter from this
Office of the 4th July, forms no part of the amount claimed
in the subsequent letter of the 23rd August.
I am to add that the claim
claim of £165.19.4 is not for Medical
Stores supplied by the Army Medical Department exclusively to
the Detachment of Royal Engineers proceeding to British Columbia,
but is made up of separate items as follows,
Per Voucher forwarded to Colonial Office in letter dated
dated 28th August 1858 £14. 6. 2
Do 30 August 1858 38.12. 6
Do 7th December 1858 1.13. 0
Do 23th August 1859 111. 7. 8.
£165.19. 4
claim of £165.19.4 is not for Medical
Stores supplied by the Army Medical Department exclusively to
the Detachment of Royal Engineers proceeding to British Columbia,
but is made up of separate items as follows,
Per Voucher forwarded to Colonial Office in letter dated
dated 28th August 1858 £14. 6. 2
Do 30 August 1858 38.12. 6
Do 7th December 1858 1.13. 0
Do 23th August 1859 111. 7. 8.
£165.19. 4
Other documents included in the file
Draft, Elliot to E. Barnard, Crown Agents,
5 November 1859, asking why the accounts of Evans and Stevens had
remained unpaid.
Draft, Elliot to Under-Secretary, War Office, 19 November 1859,
advising the accounts had been paid and the Treasury would be requested
to transfer £111.7.8 to the credit of army services.
Draft, Elliot to G.A. Hamilton, Treasury, 19 November 1859,
requesting the paymaster general be authorized to transfer the requisite
sum to army services, charging it to the account of British Columbia.
Minutes by CO staff
In a letter dated 23d August 59 the Army Medical
Department transmitted a list of Surgical Instruments supplied
for B. Columbia & asked payment of the sum of £165.19.4.
The A.M. Dt were requested by a letter from this office
dated 3d Septemr to give some explanation on the
subject. It appears from the answer received (10865) that
£111.7.8 only is the cost of stores supplied for British Columbia.
This sum of £111.7.8, the Treasury should be requested
to pay on acct of the Colony.
The following are the items that make up the whole sum
of £165.19.4. They were included with several other accounts
in letters received from the Army Med: Dt at 3 different
times and are the only items of the whole number which remain unpaid:
1. Gold Coast Stores (Evans & Stevens) 14.6.2
2. Bermuda Do Do 38.12.6
3. Gold Coast Do Do 1.13
1. Gold Coast Stores (Evans & Stevens) 14.6.2
2. Bermuda Do Do 38.12.6
3. Gold Coast Do Do 1.13
These accounts are all due to Messrs Evans & Stevens.
The Agent was instructed on 3d Sept & 7th Dec /58 to make
the payments on account of the Gold Coast. The Treasury were
requested on 29th Sept 58 to pay Messrs Evans account
with those of other chemists for the stores supplied for Bermuda.
The Col. Agent could no doubt explain why Messrs Evans
& Stevens alone have not been paid.
HT Irving
31 Oct