Colonial Despatches
The colonial despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871
Public Offices document
Berens, Henry Hulse to Pelham-Clinton, Henry Pelham Fiennes 9 June 1862, CO 305:19, no. 5967, 479.
Abstract
Public Offices document.
Minutes (4), Other documents (2).
Berens presses Newcastle
on the subject of the settlement of the Vancouvers Island Colony Accountsand warns that the HBC is adding interest to its claim.
Berens to Newcastle
9 June 1862
I have the honour to refer your Grace to the letter which I addressed
to you on the 15th April last
on the subject of the settlement of the Vancouvers Island Colony Accounts.
Not having been favoured with an Answer to that letter I feel
compelled to recur to the subject and to inform your Grace that as
the Hudsons Bay Company consider that interest is running on the
amount of their claim they trust that your Grace will see the
desirableness of having the matter brought to a settlement with as
little further delay as possible.
Minutes by CO staff
Treasury. The vote having been sanctioned by the Ho: C. I suppose
the Treasury are in a condition now to pay. The H.B.Co ought,
however, to know that £55,000 cannot be produced by the T-y witht
the sanction of Parlt & that waiting was inevitable.
ABd
14 June
Other documents included in the file
Rogers to G.A. Hamilton, Treasury, 16 June 1862,
forwarding copy of the letter in which the Company again press for a settlement of their outstanding accounts.
