Ley, J. H. to [Recipient not known.] 14 August 1848, CO 305:1, no. 1589, 289.

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Ley, J. H. to [Recipient not known.] 14 August 1848, CO 305:1, no. 1589, 289.

Abstract

Public Offices document. Minutes (3), Marginalia (6).

A printed resolution, signed by Ley, to the House of Commons requests Her Majesty to give directions on several correspondences related to Vancouver Island, which Ley lists.

In the minutes, Blackwood notes his surprise that some of the documents in question have been included in the request, given their secret & confidential status.

1589 Vancouvers Island
N. America.

House of Commons.

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Lunæ, 14° die Augusti, 1848.
Resolved,

That an humble Address be presented to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased to give directions that there be laid before this House, Copies of a Despatch to the Admiralty, from Rear Admiral Sir George Seymour, dated Her Majesty's ship Collingwood, Valparaiso, the 8th day of February 1847:

Of a Despatch from Commander Gordon, dated Her Majesty's Steam sloop

Cormorant, Nesgually, the 7th day of October 1846, to Captain J.A. Duntze, of Her Majesty's ship Fesguard, being an Inclosure in the last:

Of a Letter dated Fort Vancouver, the 7th day of September 1846. signed

Peter Keen Ogden and James Douglas, addressed to Captain Duntze, of Her Majesty's ship Fesguard:

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Of a Report by Lieutenants Wane

and Vavasour, dated the 1st day of November 1845, addressed to the Secretary of State for the Colonies:

Of a Report from Lieutenant Vavasour, dated March 1846, addressed to

Colonel Holloway, of the Royal Engineers, Canada:

And, of the Instructions sent by the Admiralty to the Commanding Officer, or any other Officer on the Pacific Station, relative to the Coals in Vancouver's

Island; and of the Correspondence between the Colonial Office and the Admiralty, on the same subject.

J H Ley
GI Dom Corr

Mr Christy

Minutes by CO staff

Mr Elliot.
The documents mentioned in the 3d & 4th Paragraphs are secret & confidential Papers—which I have never seen, & which I should have thought there wd have been some objection to producing. The other requisitions should I suppose, be forwarded to the Admiralty to comply with.

ABd 16/8.

Mr Hawes.
This is a subject which has already attracted your attention.

T.F.E. 16/

Aug 17 This may be put by. Mr Christy makes an

amended & an agreed Return—discharging this himself.