Five lists of individuals called for jury duty. Attendance noted, with several prominent citizens fined $100 for non-attendance.

File consists of 1 document: Grievances of the Grand Jury. Summary of grievances of the Grand Jury. They seem to feel that many of the cases brought before them are of a trivial nature and could be settled in a lower court. They are also concerned with the increase in crime and make suggestions as to how to curb the problem such as not issuing anymore saloon licenses, lighting the streets better, etc.

File consists of one document: a judge's order that the Plaintiff be at liberty to hold the Defendant to bail for $290.

Regarding the courtship of B.C. missionary William Gray’s daughter Caroline and Jacob Kamm of Portland, Oregon. Kamm was a steamship builder and owner of “George S. Wright.” Includes 11 letters.

No. of Plaint – 694

Summons; Invoice for £5.7.6; Invoice for £17.16.8

• Robson is summoned to appear in court to answer the Plaintiff for the total amount of £20.10.2. The amount is due for various goods sold to the Defendant by the Plaintiff.

File consists of four documents: bill of costs; writ of summons; judgment by default; and affidavit of service. Case regards the Plaintiff's claim that Defendant owes $283.75 principal and interest due to him as payee on a promissory note.

File consists of eight documents: Affidavit of P. Grelley; Order; Order to Amend Bill; Notice of Motion; Summons; Affidavit of Service of Summons; Order; Affidavit of H.P. Crease. Plaintiff claims $730 owed to him by the Defendant for the use and occupation of the Colonial Hotel. Court Order states that the Receiver be at liberty to wind up the business of the Colonial Hotel and to bring on and pay the accounts of the said receivership.

File contains: Notice of Motion; (2) Draft: of Order; Receipt for Papers Out of Court; Notice of Filing Answer; Appearance for H. Kraft; Judges Minutes; Statement of Facts; Affidavit of Defendant Kraft; and Bill of Complaint. The Defendants leased the Colonial Hotel in Victoria from the Plaintiffs for one year. Disagreements arose between the parties and the Plaintiff asks that Kraft stops any further construction or renovation on the Hotel while the case between them is resolved with the Defendants paying the Plaintiff for damages suffered.

File consists of six documents: (2) Writ of Summons; Judgment; Affidavit of Johnson; Bill of Costs; Affidavit of Service. the Plaintiff claims $54.85 for debt and $12.50 for costs as the balance due on unpaid accounts

No. of Plaint – 636
Summons

• Grinj had previously obtained a judgment against the Defendant for £50 which remains unsatisfied. The Summons states that if the Defendant does not appear in obedience to this summons, he may be committed to the common gaol.

File consists of eight documents: notice to enter an appearance; affidavit of A. Crease; affidavit of service; consent to the order; affidavit of A. Luxton; affidavit of J. Lawson; affidavit of P. Irving; affidavit of W. Grohman. Case regards a dispute arising out of a land claim.

No. of Plaint – 852

Summons; Invoice for £18.19.1; Judgment Confessed

• Smith & Co. are summoned to appear in court to answer the Plaintiff for the total amount of £20.4.5. The amount is due for various goods sold to the Defendant by the Plaintiffs.

No. of Plaint – 482

Summons; Invoice for $10.92; Judgment Confessed

• Bunster is summoned to appear in court to answer the Plaintiff for the total amount of $16.12. The amount is due for goods sold to the Defendant by the Plaintiff.

No. of Plaint – 101
Summons; Invoice for £11.9.2 shillings

• Rodgers is summoned to appear in court to answer Halcrow for the total amount of £12.3.2, the amount of rent due for a house on Johnson St. that was formerly owned by one Mrs. Davis. The amount owed on this rent is $55.

File contains: Cross-Examination of E. Hall. Case regarding the relevance and privileged communications of information in the cross-examination of Hall (see [Hamley v. Edgar]).

File consists of three documents: Record; Return of Commission; Jury List. Defendant is involved in unlawfully and fraudulently shipping and otherwise dealing with certain unaccustomed goods, quantities of spirituous duties payable on them. Plaintiff claims 100 pounds for damages.

File contains: Affidavit of W. Hamley; Deposition of E. Hall; and a Writ. Case is regarding the transport and payment and duty on certain spirits that were going up North to be traded with the Indians.

File contains: (2) Order; Affidavit of G.J. Wright; and Abstract. The case matter is unclear.

File consists of one document: points of appeal. Case regards grounds of appeal against decisions of the Country Court Judge regarding and unsatisfied mortgage. "That if a mortgagee or a person having a limited interest in leaseholds renews on his own account he is a trustee for all the person interested in the old lease."

File consists of 3 documents: (3) Records. Regarding a mortgage transfer.

File consists of one document: affidavit of J. Hett.

No. of Plaint – 856

Summons; Invoice for £26.10.1; Bill of Costs for £3.5.0; Judgment Confessed

• Golding is summoned to appear in court to answer the Plaintiff for the total amount of £29.5.11. The amount is due various goods sold to the Defendant by the Plaintiffs.

No. of Plaint – 717

Summons; Invoice for £8.6.8

• the Defendants are summoned to appear in court to answer the Plaintiff for the total amount of £8.18.8. The amount is due on a balance of account between the Plaintiff and the Defendants.

No. of Plaint – 719
Summons; Invoice for £6.2

• the Defendants are summoned to appear in court to answer the Plaintiff for the total amount of £6.1.4. The amount is due for various goods sold to the Defendants by the Plaintiff.

File contains: Affidavit of the Plaintiff, Affidavit of A.J. Rise; Bill of Complaint; Judges Order, Affidavit of J. Hill; and Injunction. The Plaintiff had bought 25 head of cattle at $50 per head from a Mr. I Carson, which were grazing on the pasture of the Defendant. When the Plaintiff's agent appeared, viewed the cattle and approved of the sale, asking that they now be delivered, the Defendant denied that they were the cattle of Mr. I. Carson and could not deliver them.

No. of Plaint – 98
Invoice for $136.04; Summons; Statement of Accounts

• Dowse is being summoned to attend in court to answer Harris for the amount of $136.04, due for meats and vegetables sold to the Defendant.

File consists of one document: Order of the Court. Plaintiff, a butcher, is suing the Defendant, a cattle dealer, for the sum of 2,500 pounds

Writ. Plaintiff claims that the Defendant is greatly indebted to him and he believes that the Defendant is about to go into "parts beyond the seas" and the Plaintiff asks that he be apprehended and held to bail.

File consists of 1 document: Affidavit of T. Guthrie. Guthrie was appointed to take charge of the Victoria Transfer Company's property. The Company appears to have owed various amounts to several creditors, of which Harrison is one.

File consists of one document: Judgment on Confession. Plaintiff are entitled to recover $3,800 U.S. currency from the Defendants. The Defendants confess the action.

File contains: Writ of Summons; Order; Summons to Show Cause. The Plaintiff claims $4,026.50 as the balance due on consignments of goods from the Plaintiffs to the Defendants on accounts stated between them.

File consists of two documents: (2) Affidavit to Hold to Bail. Plaintiff claims that the Defendant is truly indebted to him in the sum of $339.17 for payment on unpaid promissory notes. Keffee is master of the Schooner "Rose" and the case has something to do with this.

No. of Plaint – 841

Summons; Invoice for £4.17.11; Judgment Confessed

• Golding is summoned to appear in court to answer the Plaintiff for the total amount of £5.4.7. The amount is due for money lent to the Defendant by the Plaintiff.

File consists of two documents: Affidavit of W. Sharron; Notice regarding the arrival of a brick making machine on the ship "Frigate Bird" purchased by the Plaintiff, now in the possession and under the control of the Defendant. Plaintiffs counsel is interfering in other matters of the said Defendants, of which he has no authority or right to interfere with, other than the brick making machine

File contains: Injunction; Petition of C. Kerr; Affidavit of C. Kerr; Affidavit of H. Reynolds; (2) Order; and Bill of Complaint. The defendants are charged with wrongfully and fraudulently appropriating certain property, goods and chattels of the Plaintiff. The Plaintiff had secured passage for those goods from San Francisco to Victoria on the ship the "Frigate Bird". The Defendants were to sell the various goods (cattle, brick making machine, etc.) and the profits were to be divided between the parties. The Defendants appropriated the goods for themselves and Haskell is suing for damages.

File consists of two documents: rule for a new trial; and order for a new trial. Verdict is to be set aside and a new trial had upon the grounds that the verdict was "perverse" and contrary to evidence.

File consists of two documents: Return of Commission; and Defendant's Bill of Costs. Examination of witnesses on behalf of the Plaintiff, Nakloab and Alyah, regarding a man named "Charley," who sold whiskey to Indigenous Peoples in exchange for minks.

File consists of one document: Affidavit of T. Davies regarding the settlement ordered by a previous judgment for money owed from the Defendants to the Plaintiffs for $164.45. The Defendants did not intend to pay the debt.

File consists of three documents: (2) order; affidavit of C. Pooley.

File consists of 1 document: Affidavit of T.B. Shoebothan. In regards to seizures made by the Sheriff of property belonging to the Plaintiff, situate on the premises known as the West Bay Saw Mill on Gambiers Island.

No. of Plaint – 702

Summons; Invoice for £1.14.4

• Byles is summoned to appear in court to answer the Plaintiff for the total amount of £1.10.3. The amount is due for various goods sold to the Defendant by the Plaintiff.

No. of Plaint – 738

Summons

• Felker is summoned to appear in court to answer the Plaintiff for the total amount of £8.0.6. The particulars for what the amount is due for are not indicated.

No. of Plaint – 847

Summons; Invoice for £1.19; Judgment Confessed

• Swanich is summoned to appear in court to answer the Plaintiff for the total amount of £2.1.8. The amount is due a horse that appears to have been rented to the Defendant by the Plaintiff.

File consists of one document: Affidavit of W. Culverwell. Defendant is about to leave the colony to avoid his debts and is selling out of his partnership in "Mack and Co.", refusing to give security for the liabilities contracted while in the partnership.

File consists of nineteen documents: last will and testament of J. Wallace; affidavit of J. Dunsmuir; (3) affidavit of A.P. Luxton; approved minutes; statement of claim; affidavit of H.D. Helmcken; affidavit of E. Coyne; affidavit of R.H. Pooley; affidavit of D.M. Rogers; affidavit of defense to claim; affidavit of A. Maclean; affidavit of H.D. Helmcken; affidavit of W. Moresby; affidavit of E. Wallace; minutes of order; order. Case regards the Plaintiff, daughter of A. Dunsmuir, deceased, alleges the fact to be that the said pretended will is not the will of her late father, for he was of unsound mind, memory, and understanding.

No. of Plaint – 716

Summons; Invoice for £17.14.2

• Marmiesse is summoned to appear in court to answer the Plaintiff for the total amount of £18.18.4. The amount is due for various goods sold to the Defendant by the Plaintiff.

File consists of one document: Affidavit of M. W. Drake. action is brought to recover a debt of $2,673.59 for goods sold and delivered by the Plaintiff to the Defendant. Plaintiffs claim that the Defendant is purposely delaying the trial.

File consists of 3 documents: Notice of Writ; Order for Substituted Service; Affidavit of Service. Plaintiffs claim $63.14 for goods sold and delivered to the Defendant. The Defendant was from Vernon originally but had since moved to San Francisco.

File contains: Order for Caprias; Affidavit of J.M. Wark; Affidavit of M.W. Drake. The Defendant is indebted to the Plaintiffs for $131.51 for goods sold and delivered by the Plaintiffs to the Defendant at his request. Plaintiffs are concerned that the Defendant is about to leave the colony and asks that he be apprehended.

File contains: Writ of Summons; Appearance. The Defendant is indebted to the Plaintiffs fur 73 pounds, one shilling one pence for money owed on an overdue promissory note.