Colonial Despatches
The colonial despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871
Public Offices document
Stansfeld, James to Monsell, William 11 April 1870, CO 60:42, no. 3821, 132.
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Stansfeld, James to Monsell, William 11 April 1870, CO 60:42, no. 3821, 132.
Public Offices document.
Minutes (3), Other documents (1).
Stansfeld to Under-Secretary of State
Treasury Chambers
11th April 1870
Sir,
The Lords Commissoners of Her Majesty's Treasury have had
before them Mr Herbert's letter of the 2nd instt enclosing a
copy of a letter from Mr Maunsell, Private Secretary to the
late Mr Seymour, Governor of British Columbia, applying to be
repaid his expenses of returning to England from the Colony
amounting to £110.
Their Lordships desire me to request that you will move the Earl
Granville to
cause them to be informed whether it is the
practice, as stated by Mr Maunsell, that the Passage of a
Private Secretary should be paid out of the allowance granted to
the Governor.
cause them to be informed whether it is the
practice, as stated by Mr Maunsell, that the Passage of a
Private Secretary should be paid out of the allowance granted to
the Governor.
Minutes by CO staff
Mr Herbert
I do not see how it is possible to give a positive answer to this Treasury question.
I do not see how it is possible to give a positive answer to this Treasury question.
The grant of passage money is personal to the Governor who of
course spends it as he pleases.
The appt of [a] private Secy is also a personal one and I
conclude it is a matter of arrangement as to whether the Govr
pays for his P.Ss passage or not.
I believe Mr Seymour paid for the passage out of his first
private Secy Capt Holmes—but on the other hand I know that
Sir R Macdonnell did not—and I understand that Govr Kennedy
did not pay for Mr Maunsells passage when he went out with him
originally to Vancouver Isld.
I am afraid therefore we can
only give an evasive reply to the
question whether it is the practice that the passage of a
private Secy
"should"
be paid out of the allowance granted to a Governor by stating
that it is a matter of arrangement but that Ld Granville has
reason to believe that Mr Seymour
would have paid for Mr Maunsells return passage if he had lived &
returned to this Country at the expiration of his term of
service as Govr of B.C.
only give an evasive reply to the
question whether it is the practice that the passage of a
private Secy
"should"
be paid out of the allowance granted to a Governor by stating
that it is a matter of arrangement but that Ld Granville has
reason to believe that Mr Seymour
would have paid for Mr Maunsells return passage if he had lived &
returned to this Country at the expiration of his term of
service as Govr of B.C.
I cannot help feeling that the case is a weak one, and that
Mrs Seymour if anyone should bear the expense out of the £500
granted to her.
WR
12.4.70
Other documents included in the file
Herbert to Secretary to the Treasury, 16 April 1870, advising
that although there is no rule requiring the governor to provide
passage money, it is generally understood that he will do so.