Colonial Despatches
The colonial despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871
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Hammond, Edmund to Monsell, William 13 October 1870, CO 60:42, no. 11051, 212.
Abstract
Hammond, Edmund to Monsell, William 13 October 1870, CO 60:42, no. 11051, 212.
Public Offices document.
Minutes (1), Other documents (2).
Hammond to Under-Secretary of State
With reference to your letter of the 1st Ultimo enclosing a
Copy of a dispatch from the Governor of British Columbia
relative to the award granted by the United States of Colombia
to Samuel Harris, a resident in that Colony; I am directed by
Earl Granville to request that you will inform the Earl of
Kimberley that a letter has this day been received from the
Treasury, statingthat
that Their Lordships have desired the
Paymaster General to transfer to the credit of the account of
the Crown Agents for the Colonies the sum of
£175.15.7,
being the amount awarded to Samuel Harris by the Government
of Colombia for injuries sustained in the Panama Riots in the
year 1856.
that Their Lordships have desired the
Paymaster General to transfer to the credit of the account of
the Crown Agents for the Colonies the sum of
£175.15.7,
being the amount awarded to Samuel Harris by the Government
of Colombia for injuries sustained in the Panama Riots in the
year 1856.
Minutes by CO staff
Other documents included in the file
Herbert to Crown Agents, 18 October 1870, authorizing them to
receive the payment as per despatch and credit it to the account
of British Columbia.
People in this document
Herbert, Robert George Wyndham
Leveson-Gower, Granville George