Colonial Despatches
The colonial despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871
Correspondence (private letter)
Kennedy, Arthur to Pelham-Clinton, Henry Pelham Fiennes 30 December 1863, CO 305:21, no. 12463, 316.
Abstract
Correspondence (private letter).
Minutes (6), Other documents (2).
Kennedy to Newcastle
I have the honor to acknowledge the receit
of Your despatch dated 18 Decr 1863, transmitting The Queens
Commission appointing me to be Governor of Vancouver Island;
accompanied by Instructions under the Royal Sign Manual.
It is more than probable that circumstances may arise, which
would render a personal conference with the Governor of British
Columbia desirable,
and I should therefore submit to Your Grace the
expediency of furnishing me with authority, to guard me against an
infringement of the last Article of the Royal Instructions forbidding
me to leave the Island without leave first obtained.
and I should therefore submit to Your Grace the
expediency of furnishing me with authority, to guard me against an
infringement of the last Article of the Royal Instructions forbidding
me to leave the Island without leave first obtained.
Minutes by CO staff
Mr Elliot
The last clause of the Royal Instructions forbid the Govr from absenting himself from his Govt without having first obtained leave from the Sovereign for so doing either under the Sign Manual & Signet or through one of H.M's Principal Secretaries of State.
The last clause of the Royal Instructions forbid the Govr from absenting himself from his Govt without having first obtained leave from the Sovereign for so doing either under the Sign Manual & Signet or through one of H.M's Principal Secretaries of State.
Permission was granted to Sir
George Bowen received permission
to go to Sydney [marginal note: (June?) 1860]
if he should think it desirable for the purpose of consulting the
Governor General, and a Circular Dispatch was addressed to the
Governors of the North American Colonies on the 30 April 1862,
authorising them to visit the neighbouring Colonies provided that
their absence from their Governments for such purpose did not exceed
3 Weeks at a time or 4 Weeks in the year & that the absences should
be reported to the Secy of State. This is rather a Departmental
question, but as the Letter has reference to a provision of the R.
Instructions, I have given this explanation.
George Bowen received permission
to go to Sydney [marginal note: (June?) 1860]
if he should think it desirable for the purpose of consulting the
Governor General, and a Circular Dispatch was addressed to the
Governors of the North American Colonies on the 30 April 1862,
authorising them to visit the neighbouring Colonies provided that
their absence from their Governments for such purpose did not exceed
3 Weeks at a time or 4 Weeks in the year & that the absences should
be reported to the Secy of State. This is rather a Departmental
question, but as the Letter has reference to a provision of the R.
Instructions, I have given this explanation.
GG
1 Jany/64
It may be most desirable that each of these two Governors, as
occasion may demand, should visit the other: & the two Colonies are
in close neighbourhood. I should give Govr Kennedy permission,
saying that the S. of State leaves to his discretion the duration to
be given to any one visit to the neighbouring Colony, and merely
provides that his absence from his post, without previous leave from
home, is not to exceed four weeks in a year in all, & that such absence
is to be regularly reported. The same shd then be accorded to
Governor Seymour.
TFE
4 Jany
Quite right.
N
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Other documents included in the file
Newcastle to Kennedy, 14 January 1864, conveying permission to
visit the governor of British Columbia as occasion may demand, and
stating the conditions of such leave.
Minutes by CO staff
Draft to Gov. of B. Columbia.
Other documents included in the file
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Newcastle to Seymour, 14 January 1864, conveying permission to
visit the governor of Vancouver Island as occasion may demand, and
stating the conditions of such leave.
Minutes by CO staff
Draft to Gov. Kennedy