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This series consists of ledger books likely created by the colony of BC Treasury from 1858-1868. Ledger books are financial records in which each transaction is entered under a particular account or subject as a debit or a credit. The information may have been copied from a related daybook or journal before being sorted and copied into the ledger. Accounts can include anything that is a source of government income or expenditure, such as: salaries, rent, licences, postage, lighthouses, military, mining fees, roads, etc. Account names may be indexed.

Information may be entered under the following headings: date, related journal page, description of the transaction, and the amount. Debit transactions are recorded on the left side of a folio and credits on the right side.

This series consists of bills, draft ordinances, orders of the day and other working papers for the Legislative Council of the colony of British Columbia.

This series consists of correspondence inward of the Cariboo Gold Commissioner regarding mining leases, indentures, partnerships and leaves of absence, mainly dated 1864. Records are filed alphabetically by the name of the individual or the company.

This series consists of Department of Lands financial returns and accounts. Includes financial register of land transactions and land fees, values of property registered and office and miscellaneous expenditures.

The series consists of records created by the Cariboo Gold Commissioner between 1863 and 1868. It contains correspondence and indentures re mining companies and notes re court cases.

The fonds consists of correspondence and financial records of William Winnard.

The fonds consists of letters from Annie Deans to her family in England.

This series contains schedules of despatches sent to and received from the Secretary of State for the Colonies.

Gaoler's memorandum book recording rules, punishments, medical treatment, and noting other changes in the daily routine.

The fonds consists of correspondence, ranch diaries (Chilancoh Ranch), business records and personal records including diaries kept by T.L. Bayliff, G.T.L Bayliff and Hugh Peel Lane Bayliff.

This series consists of 42 volumes of financial records and one file of correspondence likely created by the colony of BC Treasury from 1858-1872. The majority of records are waste books, journals, ledgers and cash books. However they may not be labelled clearly as such. Other types of records include day books, blotters, bill books, toll books, debenture registers, notebooks, payment slips, revenue books and other account books. The titles of each volume in the file list are transcribed directly from the cover of the volume. Title information in [square brackets] is estimated or inferred by the archivist. The records document the financial transactions and balances of the colonial government in all aspects of its operations and functions.

Waste books are rough account book in which transactions are recorded as they occur. Waste book entries are often transferred to day books prior to summary in journals and ledgers. These transactions are entered chronologically by date and are arranged under various accounts. The accounts may be the type of expense, or the name of the office in which the transaction relates to. Information may be entered under the following headings: date, related journal page, amount and total. Only some books include a description of individual services or items of a transaction.

Journals are a type of financial record used in double entry book keeping to separate transactions into debits or credits. They are an intermediary record used to reorganize the chronological entries in rough day books or waste books into specific accounts, before they are ultimately copied into a ledger book. Information may be entered under the following headings: amount, associated ledger folio number, associated waste book page, date, a description of the transaction, and if the transaction was a debit or credit. The end of each year includes a sheet summarizing the balances for various accounts.

Ledger books are financial records in which each transaction is entered under a particular account or subject as a debit or a credit. The information may have been copied from a related daybook or journal before being sorted and copied into the ledger. Accounts can include anything that is a source of government income or expenditure. Account names may be indexed. Information may be entered under the following headings: date, related journal page, description of the transaction, and the amount. Debit transactions are recorded on the left side of a folio and credits on the right side.

Cash books list receipts and payments in date order and are used to determine total assets at any given time. Information may be entered under the following headings: date of receipt or payment, number of voucher; name of the person or department making or receiving the payment; reason for payment or receipt; amount received or paid; the heading under which the entry was recorded in the related waste book; and the waste book page number. Cash books may be referred to as collectorate books or records of receipts and payments.

The fonds consists of minutes of meetings of the Directors, a ledger and an agreement of the Albion Bed Rock Flume Company.

This series contains miscellaneous memoranda from the Chief Commissioner of Lands and Works relating to New Westminster streets and bridges, lands pre-empted, sold and leased, bills for drafting supplies, lists of tools at Douglas, B.C., and list of books ordered by the Chief Commissioner.

This series consists of receipt books and miscellaneous land sale records. Records consist largely of receipts for the sale of town lots, suburban and country lands, and unsurveyed rural lands, issued by Assistant Commissioners of Lands and Works for Cariboo District, Lillooet District, Yale District, and New Westminster District. The series also includes land sale records pertaining to Lytton, Seymour, Douglas, Port Moody, Fort Langley, and Similkameen district, and a trading licences receipt book issued by Frank Trevor, Collector at Quesnel.

Presentments of the Grand Jurors in and for the District of Cariboo East, July 1867. The report is submitted by J.H. Todd (foreman) to Chief Justice Begbie and reports on the Jury's inspection of the hospital, jail, court house, sidewalks and roads, fire hazards in town particularly the need for an explosives storehouse, the need for better trails to outlying creeks and the annoyance caused by an unnecessary number of dogs. Chief Justice Begbie responds to each of these points in his covering letter forwarding the presentments to the Colonial Secretary.

This series contains the following notes of proceedings: "Chief Justice Needham's record of Special Cariboo Circuit - Canada Co. v Grouse Flume Co. and other cases". This handwritten volume contains notes from September 16, 1867 to October 4, 1867.

The fonds consists of instructions and additional instructions to Governor Seymour.

The fonds consists of Cowley's diary.

Plaint and procedure books. Volume 1 contains a guide for several court orders.

The series consists of records created by the Vancouver Island courts of civil justice between approximately 1866 and 1867. The index records in this series appear to be drafts of an index to civil suits, and cases mentioned in this rough index appear in volume 3 of GR-2716 (plaint and procedure books from the Vancouver Island Inferior Court of Civil Justice). The index is not complete.

Several of the index pages were written on the back of records belonging to the probate file of Emilia Fedaro (also spelled Fidaro), who died in 1867 or 1868. The probate pages include the granting of letters of administration to Robert Newell, as well as what appears to be a draft of a covering page to the probate file.

This series consists of one receipt stub book for liquor licenses sold by the Colony of Vancouver Island in 1867. The stubs list the number of the licence, date, name of the applicant, and the amount paid. Only a portion of the book has been used.

This series consists of Legislative Council standing orders, 1864 and 1867.

The fonds consists of Hamilton Moffatt's letter book, pertaining to his activities at various forts including Fort Rupert, Fort Simpson and Fort Kamloops.

The fonds consists of Nicholls' logbooks from the HMS Tribune, Victory and Lord Clyde.

This series consists of a collection of petitions submitted to representatives of the government of British Columbia from citizens. The series includes the following petitions

1. Petition to retain the New Westminster Assay Office, 16 October 1867
2. Petition to improve the steep grade of the Clinton-Alkali Lake Waggon Road from the residents of Dog Creek and Canoe Creek to the Provincial Secretary
3. Petition to fill the vacant position of Cariboo Gold Commissioner to the Premier [1875?]

The fonds consists of accounts, correspondence, fur returns, a register of marriage licences and a letter book created by various Fort Vancouver Hudson's Bay Company officials between 1832 and 1858. Most of the correspondence consists of both originals and copies of letters outward written by Chief Factor John McLoughlin and Chief Traders James Douglas and Peter Skene Ogden however there are also letters sent by company clerk Dugald Mactavish. The letter book also includes private correspondence of James Douglas, 1866-1877.

The fonds consists of Buttle's exploration diary and notebooks, including one of Indian vocabulary.

The fonds consists of various papers related to the activities of the Puget Sound Agricultural Company including a prospectus, correspondence and agreements.

The fonds consists of notes, memoranda and correspondence of Edward Whymper.

Bench book of criminal cases heard by Judge Joseph Needham, Nov 23, 1865 - Feb 2, 1867. 1 bound volume.