Colonial Despatches
The colonial despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871
Despatch to London
Seymour, Frederick to Grenville, Richard 26 August 1868, CO 60:33, no. 11071, 391.
Abstract
Despatch to London.
Minutes (2), Enclosures (untranscribed) (2), Other documents (1), Marginalia (1).
With the Government of British Columbia having responded to the Colonial Office’s
Draft Ordinance regulating the constitution of the two Supreme Courts,Seymour transmits an ordinance
entitled; No. 7. An Ordinance respecting Barristers and Attorneys-at-Law [and adds] the report of the Attorney Generalfor further consideration. Robinson’s minute suggests seeing
11069 & 11070.Rogers’s minute recommends sanctioning
this [ordinance] and No 20 of 1868 (in 10810).
No. 109
New Westminster
26th August 1868
My Lord Duke,
I have had the honor to receive Your Grace's despatch No. 89 of
20th November 1867, informing me that Her Majesty's decision
on No. 20Ordinance
Ordinance of 1867—
will be suspended pending the action of the Legislature with reference to the Draft Ordinance regulating the constitution of the two Supreme Courts.
Ordinance of 1867—
An Ordinance respecting the Legal Profession
will be suspended pending the action of the Legislature with reference to the Draft Ordinance regulating the constitution of the two Supreme Courts.
2. My despatches noted in the margin
of even date will have
announced to Your Grace the mode in which the Legislative
Council desire, for the present,to
to settle this much debated question.
No. 107 and No. 108
to settle this much debated question.
3. I have now the honor to transmit an authenticated and two
plain copies of an Ordinance of the recent Session of the
Legislature, entitled;
No. 7. An Ordinance respecting Barristers and Attorneys-at-Law.
I add the report of the Attorney General.
Minutes by CO staff
Documents enclosed with the main document (not transcribed)
Three printed copies of ordinance not on microfilm.
H.P.P. Crease, Attorney General, to Seymour, 25 August 1868,
reporting on the ordinance as per despatch.
Other documents included in the file
Draft reply, Buckingham to Seymour, No. 93, 24 October 1868 conveying “Her Majesty's Gracious confirmation and allowance [of the ordinances]
entitled "An Ordinance respecting the Legal professions" [and] "An Ordinance respecting
Barristers and Attorneys at Law."”