Colonial Despatches
The colonial despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871
Public Offices document
Romaine, William Govett to Rogers, Frederic 18 March 1861, CO 60:12, no. 2513, 10.
Abstract
Public Offices document.
Minutes (5), Other documents (2), Marginalia (1).
Romaine writes Rogers on behalf of the Admiralty to ask
Newcastle to arrange for payment of £1270.10.1 to naval services to cover expenses related
to the shipment of stores to
Vancouver Island on Thames City between
21 August 1858 and 9 November 1860.
Romaine to Rogers (Permanent Under-Secretary)
18 March 1861
The expenses specified on the other side hereof
having been incurred by the Naval Department on account of the
Colonial Office for the services stated, I am commanded by
my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, to request that you
will move His Grace the Duke of Newcastle to cause repayment of the sum in question to be made to the credit of Naval
Services, through Her Majesty's Paymaster-General, who has
been authorized to receive the same.
The sum of £1270.10.1 for the freight of Stores to Vancouvers Island per
Thames City between 21st
August 1858 and 9th Novr 1860.
Minutes by CO staff
Mr Elliot
This payment will have to be made out of the Vote taken for defraying the expences in freighting, the stores for B. Columbia. I shd not imagine that the amount of the Vote has been absorbed.
This payment will have to be made out of the Vote taken for defraying the expences in freighting, the stores for B. Columbia. I shd not imagine that the amount of the Vote has been absorbed.
ABd
21/3
Find out from Mr Buckland himself before we write.
TFE
22/3
Mr Elliot
I find from Mr Buckland that
there are no funds in the
hands of the Paymaster belonging to British Columbia. The
Treasury are about to recover a sum of £4000 from the War
Office on account of the Regimental pay of the Engineers,
and it may perhaps be as well therefore to keep this claim
back for a week or two to give them time to do this. I annex
a memo which, I believe shews the present position of the
accounts between the Colony & the Treasury.
I find from Mr Buckland that
there are no funds in the
hands of the Paymaster belonging to British Columbia. The
Treasury are about to recover a sum of £4000 from the War
Office on account of the Regimental pay of the Engineers,
and it may perhaps be as well therefore to keep this claim
back for a week or two to give them time to do this. I annex
a memo which, I believe shews the present position of the
accounts between the Colony & the Treasury.
HT Irving
26 March
March 1861
B. Columbia Account
Total amount paid by the Treasury
to 31 March 1860 £69.664.10.4
to 31 March 1861 (estimated) 35.474
£105.138
Deduct Parly Votes
to 31 Mch 1860 £42.998
" 31 " 1861 30.000 72.998
Balance due to the
Treasury Chest £32,140
Of this £18.718, about £6000 are due by the War Department
on account of San Juan and there are also 2 1/2 years Regt
Pay of the R. Engineers recoverable from that Department—amounting
probably to £12000 or £13,000.
Our Item of £2000, beyond the sum required for the
current services of the year, has been inserted in the
Estimate for 1861-62.
HT Irving
26 March
Other documents included in the file
Draft, Elliot to Hamilton, Treasury, 16 April 1861,
requesting payment of £1270.10.1 to naval services for the freight of stores sent
to British Columbia.
