Colonial Despatches
The colonial despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871
Public Offices document
Hamilton, George Alexander to Adderley, Charles Bowyer 1 August 1868, CO 60:34, no. 8369, 412.
Abstract
Public Offices document.
Minutes (2).
Hamilton relates the Treasury’s intended meaning of the letter sent on 30 June 1868 and notes that Seymour is making every effort, as described in the letter from 30 June 1868, to manage British Columbia’s financial situation.
Hamilton to Under-Secretary of State
Treasury Chambers
1st August 1868
Sir,
The Lords Commissoners of Her Majesty's Treasury have had
before them your letter of the 25th ulto, enclosing a
correspondence with the Governor of British Columbia relative
to the financial condition of the Colony.
I am to state for the information of the Secretary of State that
the object of the letter from this Department of June 30th last,
was to express the desire of this Board that the attention of
the Governorshould
should be again drawn to the necessity, in the
interests of the Colony, that punctual remittances should be made
to this country to meet the liabilities on account of the Loans—even
should it be found necessary in adopting this course, to
reduce the number of appointments in the Colony and the salaries
attached thereto.
should be again drawn to the necessity, in the
interests of the Colony, that punctual remittances should be made
to this country to meet the liabilities on account of the Loans—even
should it be found necessary in adopting this course, to
reduce the number of appointments in the Colony and the salaries
attached thereto.
As it would appear however by the enclosed Despatch that the
Governor is fully alive as to the necessity of retrenchment, My
Lords have no further observationsto
to make on the subject.
to make on the subject.
