Colonial Despatches
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Despatch to London
Seymour, Frederick to Leveson-Gower, Granville George 24 March 1869, CO 60:35, no. 5579, 378.
Abstract
Seymour, Frederick to Leveson-Gower, Granville George 24 March 1869, CO 60:35, no. 5579, 378.
Despatch to London.
Minutes (3), Enclosures (untranscribed) (5), Other documents (1).
No. 56
24th March 1869
My Lord,
I have the honor to forward an Authenticated and two plain
Copies of a Bill of the late Session of the Legislature,
entitled;
An Ordinance toentitle
entitle Exporters of Goods to certain Drawbacks
and for other purposes.
entitle Exporters of Goods to certain Drawbacks
and for other purposes.
2. Your Lordship will observe that I have not yet assented to
it but await instructions.
3. I enclose the Report of the Attorney General and of the
Collector of Customs on the subject. Both seem opposed to the
measure. On the other side, I forward a letter from Dr
Helmcken, an influential Member of Council, strongly urging its
adoption. I attach likewisecopies
copies of the proceedings on the
subject in the Legislative Council.
copies of the proceedings on the
subject in the Legislative Council.
4. As regards the Certificate required at the Custom House that
Goods have been actually landed at a Foreign Port, I know that
its abolition would be a most popular measure, but it is not one
that I am prepared to take on my own authority.
Minutes by CO staff
Mr Holland
This should be referred to the Board of Trade. Mr Birch says the Law would be a direct encouragement to smuggling. It is connected with 5400 which is to go to the Bd of Trade.
This should be referred to the Board of Trade. Mr Birch says the Law would be a direct encouragement to smuggling. It is connected with 5400 which is to go to the Bd of Trade.
CC
21 May
Sir F. Sandford
Send these papers & 5400 to the B of Trade & request to be favored with their Lordships views upon the proposed Ordinance & the other questions raised
upon these papers.
Send these papers & 5400 to the B of Trade & request to be favored with their Lordships views upon the proposed Ordinance & the other questions raised
upon these papers.
HTH
22.5.69
Documents enclosed with the main document (not transcribed)
Three printed copies of ordinance not on microfilm.
H.P.P. Crease, Attorney General, to Seymour, 24 March 1869,
reporting unfavourably on the bill as per despatch.
W. Hamley, Collector of Customs, 24 March 1869, reporting
unfavourably on the bill as per despatch.
J.S. Helmcken, Senior Member for Victoria, to Seymour, 12
March 1869, reporting favourably on the bill as per despatch.
Printed synopsis of the proceedings of the Legislative Council in
reference to passage of the Drawbacks Bill, 8 February to 12
March 1869.
Other documents included in the file
Sandford to Assistant Secretary, Commercial Department, Board of
Trade, 25 May 1869, forwarding copy of the despatch and ordinance
for opinion.