Colonial Despatches
The colonial despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871
Correspondence (private letter)
Chadwick, Joseph to Pelham-Clinton, Henry Pelham Fiennes 14 April 1862, CO 305:19, no. 3840, 620.
Abstract
Correspondence (private letter).
Minutes (3), Other documents (1).
Chadwick asks Newcastle for information about land, mining, trading, and assaying
in the colonies of Vancouver Island and British Columbia.
Chadwick to Newcastle
33 Fountain St
Manchester
Apl 14th 1862
Manchester
My Lord Duke
I take the liberty [to] say that I shall feel very greatly obliged to
your Grace if you will be so kind as to forward to me any information
relative to the [tenure and letting?] of land, the system of licensing
for mining [and] trading, the selling of land also, as well too if
there be a Government Assaying establishment [at] Victoria Vancouver's Island for British Columbia [one word off microfilm], and a mint, and
[if] I be [thrusting?] too
much on you to ask this, if you
will then be so kind to state where
the information desired is to be got and if in Parliamentary Papers
where they can be Sought. I do not know (except from some doubtful
books) where I can apply except to your office and therefore I have
ventured to write to your Grace.
will then be so kind to state where
the information desired is to be got and if in Parliamentary Papers
where they can be Sought. I do not know (except from some doubtful
books) where I can apply except to your office and therefore I have
ventured to write to your Grace.
Minutes by CO staff
Furnish the writer with the address of the Seller of the Parly
papers on B. Columbia, stating that they will be found to contain the
infn he seeks for—with the exception of his enquiry abt a mint,
wh: H.M.G. have not (yet) authorized to be established in the Colony.
ABd
19/Apl
I should inform him where he can procure the existing Parly Papers
on British Columbia—and should also tell him that no Royal Mint is
yet established in B. Columbia, but that an Assay Office exists &
that coins of a certain weight & fineness are stamped there with a
view to their entering into the local currency. I think that I am
right in the last fact, which however should be verified before
sending the answer.
Draft.
TFE
22 April
Quite right. Gold pieces of 20, 10 and 5 dollars each may be
circulated.
