Public Offices document.
Minutes (4), Other documents (3).
Peel informs Rogers that the Treasury will not object to British Columbia’s Estimates for 1864 or Ordinance No 3 of 1864. The Colonial Office minutes their agreement to sanction the Ordinance.
Peel to Rogers (Permanent Under-Secretary)
Treasury Chambers
3rd December 1864
Sir,
With reference to Mr Elliots letter of 26th
Ultimo, I am commanded by the Lords Commissioners of Her
Majesty's Treasury to acquaint you, for the information
of Mr Secretary Cardwell, that They will not object to
the Estimates of British Columbia for the year 1864, or to
the confirmation of the Ordinance No 3 of 1864, to apply
the sum of £135,639.16s.7d to the service of that year.
Their
Their Lordships would however observe that the
Abstract B Estimate of Expenditure, does not show the
amount actually expended in the year 1862, and that the
Abstract A Estimate of Revenue, shows the Approximate Revenue of 1862.
They would suggest that the attention of the Governor
should be called to this omission in order that the established form of
preparing the Estimates of eachyear year may in future be complied with.
Sir F. Rogers
I do not doubt that you saw no objection to the Act
if the Treasury agreed to it which they have done. Your
minute, to which Mr Pennell refers, noticed the
irregularity of calling this little Legislature a Parliament;
and this has already been duly pointed out to the Governor
and acknowledged by him.