Colonial Despatches
The colonial despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871
Public Offices document
Hamilton, George Alexander to Rogers, Frederic 12 August 1861, CO 305:18, no. 7230, 318.
Abstract
Public Offices document.
Minutes (3), Other documents (1).
Hamilton writes Rogers, on behalf of the Treasury,
to inform Newcastle that although the Treasury will advance money to pay the most recent bill presented
for the construction of lighthouses on Vancouver Island, it believes that
the Colony should pay one moiety of the Total Cost…including this last sum of £430.
Hamilton to Rogers (Permanent Under-Secretary)
Treasury Chambers
12 August 1861
With reference to your letter of the 20th Ultimo, relative to a Bill
for £430 drawn by the Treasurer of Vancouvers Island on account of
Lighthouses which are being built there, I am directed by the Lords
Commissioners of Her Majestys Treasury to acquaint you for the
information of the Duke of Newcastle that they have directed the
acceptance and payment of the Bill in question, and they approve of
the proposal of the Secretary of Statethat
that the Colony should pay one
moiety of the Total Cost of the Lighthouses including this last sum
of £430, and Their Lordships request to be informed of the
arrangements which may have been made by the Local Government for the
discharge of the Debt.
that the Colony should pay one
moiety of the Total Cost of the Lighthouses including this last sum
of £430, and Their Lordships request to be informed of the
arrangements which may have been made by the Local Government for the
discharge of the Debt.
Minutes by CO staff
Sir F. Rogers
Acquaint the Govr, asking whether any, & what arrangements may have been made for the payment of the moiety of the cost of these Lighthouses.
Acquaint the Govr, asking whether any, & what arrangements may have been made for the payment of the moiety of the cost of these Lighthouses.
EB Pennell
13-8/61
[The following minute is crossed out:]
Draft.
FR
13/8
