Colonial Despatches
The colonial despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871
Despatch to London
Blanshard, Richard to Grey, Henry George 11 August 1851, CO 305:3, no. 9338, 37.
Abstract
Despatch to London.
Minutes (1), Marginalia (3).
Blanshard writes to Grey to report the demand by Wellesley to pay for Blanshard's passage from Vancouver Island to England, an amount beyond Blanshard's means. Further, Blanshard notes that all such costs, according to the terms of the HBC grant, are to be defrayed to the
Companyand not to the government; he adds that he has forwarded Grey's previous letter on the subject to the HBC.
I beg to acknowledge the receipt of your Lordships despatch of
20th April 1851, enclosing
a copy of a letter from the secretary of
the Lords commissioners of the Admiralty, and desiring me to pay to
Captain Wellesly of H.M. Ship Daedalus the sum of £47,15,0, for the expenses of a passage that was afforded me in that ship,
in September and October last.
As I presume that your Lordship in observing that you did not
consider it as an expence that ought to be paid by the public, referred to the
to the terms of the grant of Vancouvers Island to the Hudson's bay Company, by which they are bound to defray all expenses of the
settlement I have forwarded a copy of your Lordships letter to the
Governor and Directors of that company requesting them to make the
payment, for no funds are at my disposal as Governor,
to the terms of the grant of Vancouvers Island to the Hudson's bay Company, by which they are bound to defray all expenses of the
settlement I have forwarded a copy of your Lordships letter to the
Governor and Directors of that company requesting them to make the
payment, for no funds are at my disposal as Governor,Footnotes
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