File consists of 3 documents: Writ of Summons; Affidavit of Service; Judgement by Default. Plaintiff claims $505 principal and interest due to him as the holder of a promissory note from the Defendant.

File consists of three documents: Joint Affidavit of Davie and Jesse; Affidavit of R. Brown; Bill of Complaint regarding a previous judgment awarded to the Plaintiff for $4,948.73 for goods and materials provided to the Defendants who were constructing a "Cofferdam" in Esquimalt for the government of British Columbia. The Defendants have been paid for their job and are currently residing in England but refuse to pay this debt.

File consists of four documents: notice to plead; particulars of the plaintiff's demand; bill of costs; declaration. Case regards monies owed to Sayward Island Lumber and Spars for goods and services provided by Defendant to Plaintiff.

No. of Plaint – 763

Summons; Invoice for £2.7.11

• McCrust is summoned to appear in court to answer the Plaintiff for the total amount of £2.11.11. The amount is due for various goods sold to the Defendant by the Plaintiff.

File consists of 5 documents: Affidavit of B.H. Drake; Affidavit of J.H. Seeley; Affidavit of N.P. Snowden; Affidavit of A.F. Williams; Affidavit of H. Siddall. Plaintiff was owed $61.50 as receiver of rents on cabins on Humboldt Street in Victoria and in regards to the settlement of the estate of W.C. S. Seeley, the Plaintiff's father.

No. of Plaint – 705

Summons; Invoice for £5.1

• Grob is summoned to appear in court to answer the Plaintiff for the total amount of £5.9. The amount is due for one months rent and for chairs provided by the Plaintiff to the Defendant.

File consists of three documents: Judgment by Default; correspondence; Plaintiffs Bill of Costs. Plaintiff claims $122.37 plus interest due to him on an unpaid account

File consists of 3 documents: Judgment; Writ of Summons; Affidavit of Service. Plaintiff claims $208 principal and interest due to him as payee on a promissory note with the Defendant.

File consists of two documents: Summons; Affidavit of Service

File consists of 2 documents: Declaration; Record. Plaintiff claims $1,250 for principal and interest due on money lent to the Defendants at their request and on accounts stated between them.

File consists of 11 documents: Writ of Summons and Affidavit of Service; Judgment by Default of Plea; (2) Affidavit of C.E. Pooley; Bill of Costs; (4) Summons; Affidavit of Selleck action is brought for the recovery of $939.43 for money paid by the Plaintiff for the Defendants at their request and for money found to be due from the Defendants to the Plaintiff on accounts stated between them.

No. of Plaint – 721

Summons; Invoice for £4.7.6; Judgment Confessed

• Golding & Co. are summoned to appear in court to answer the Plaintiff for the total amount of £4.14.2. The amount is due for 6 office chairs sold to the Defendants by the Plaintiff.

No. of Plaint – 718

Summons; Invoice for £22.17.8

• Marmiesse and Delafont are summoned to appear in court to answer the Plaintiff for the total amount of £24.4.4. The amount is due for various goods sold to the Defendants by the Plaintiff.

No. of Plaint – 478

Summons; Invoice for $175

• Vereydhen is summoned to appear in court to answer the Plaintiff for the total amount of $179.80. The amount is due for various goods sold to the Defendant by the Plaintiff.

No. of Plaint – 855

Summons; Invoice for £10.5; Judgment Confessed

• Magee is summoned to appear in court to answer the Plaintiff for the total amount of £12.8.10. The amount is due for 13 days of labor performed by the Plaintiff for the Defendant as a carpenter, building a house on Government Street.

No. of Plaint – 335

Summons; Invoice for £22.18.4; Judgment Confesses

• Phelan is summoned to appear in court to answer the Plaintiff for the total amount of £25.14.2. The amount is due on an unpaid promissory note between the Defendant and the Plaintiff.

File consists of two documents: affidavit to hold to bail; and order to hold to bail. The Defendant is indebted to the Plaintiff for $130.25 for money lent and goods sold and delivered at his request. The Defendant is about to leave Vancouver Island for Russia and Plaintiff asks that he be apprehended.

File contains: (2) Recognisance. Contents of the file also pertain to the case of Fried v. Juston and Gambitz. Lewis Lewis and Copperman are indebted to the Plaintiff Shirpsen for 100 pounds. The Defendants Huston and Gambitz owe the Plaintiff Fried 100 pounds.

No. of Plaint – 867

Summons; Invoice for £4.3; Bill of Costs for £3.12.11

• Sing is summoned to appear in court to answer the Plaintiff for the total amount of £4.9.8. The amount is due for room and board supplied by the Plaintiff to the Defendant.

File consists of four documents: receipt; (2) summons; bond. Case regards an order of the Supreme Court that the sum of $700.00 be paid out to the Plaintiff.

File consists of three documents: court order; affidavit of service; judgement by default. Case regards property on Johnson Street, Sir James Douglas claims to be entitled to and to evict all person therefrom.

No. of Plaint – 334

Summons; Invoice for 12 shillings; Invoice for £1.9.2

• Lind is summoned to appear in court to answer the Plaintiff for the total amount of 13.4 shillings. The amount is due for goods sold and delivered to the Defendant. The invoice for £1.9.2 is for making a cupboard, fixing a well, and for making sides for drawers.

File contains: (2) Writ of Caprias. Notice to the Sheriff to apprehend the Defendant and take him into custody and hold him to bail.

File consists of seven documents: Defendant's Bill of Costs; Affidavit of W .S. Green; Records; Jury List; Affidavit of Increase; Bill of Costs; and Incipitor for Judgment. The Defendant detained from the Plaintiff his goods: 2 hogs heads; Jamaican Rum; 200 blankets; 36 pairs of trousers, etc. Plaintiff claim a return of the said goods or their value of $10,000 for their detention.

File consists of two documents: certification paper. Cae regards Sophia Rudlin consent to give up her interest in an estate.

File consists of 1 document: Special Jury List.

[Birch, Arthur N.] SPEECH OF HIS HONOR THE OFFICER ADMINISTERING THE GOVERNMENT AT THE OPENING OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL, ON THURSDAY THE 18TH JANUARY, 1866. [New Westminster, 1866].

Birch, acting during Governor Seymour’s absence in England, summarizes the state of the Colony, especially with regard to the interests of gold mining in the Cariboo. He suggests the repeal of the newly imposed duty on gold, but also suggests a more rigorous application of licensing for miners – especially so that the large Chinese population can be made to contribute to the Revenue in equal proportion to the white race. Rare; although reprinted in the Journals of the Legislative Council, this is the original printing.

File consists of three documents: Writ of Summons; Affidavit of Service; Judgment by Default. Plaintiff claims $420 for debt and $10 for costs as the amount due on an unpaid promissory note

File consists of three documents: Order to Hold to Bail; Affidavit of M.T. Johnston; and Affidavit to Hold to Bail. Defendant is indebted to the Plaintiff for $697.26 for balance of principal money and interest due on a promissory note.

File consists of 7 documents: Writ of Summons; Affidavit of J. Austin; Receipt; Inventory; Regarding Summons (Statement of E. Anderson and R. Bishop); Affidavit of J. Copland; Affidavit of L. Gabriel. Plaintiff claims $397.88 principal due to him as payee on a promissory note with the Defendant.

File consists of six documents: Affidavits of J.Austin; Writ; Affidavit of R. Bishop and T. Davie; Bill of Costs; and Affidavit of J. Copland. Case is regarding the disbursement of the goods and chattels of G. Clarke and seizure of his farm "Twin Oaks."

File consists of one document: Affidavit of Clarke. regarding the seizure of Clarke's goods and chattels at Twin Oak Farm by the Sheriff under the execution against him in the suit of Spurlock

File consists of five documents: writs; affidavit of service; bill of costs by default of appearance; and judgment by default. Plaintiff claims $232 for debt and $25 for costs, the amount due on an unpaid promissory note.

File consists of 4 documents: Writ of Summons; Affidavit of Service; Bill of Costs; Judgement by Default. The Plaintiff is suing the Defendant for $165.10 for goods sold and delivered to the Defendant.

No. of Plaint – 707

• Miller is summoned to appear in court to answer the Plaintiff for the total amount of £1.7.10. The amount is due for 5 loads of hay sold and hauled for the Defendant by the Plaintiff.

No. of Plaint – 942

Summons; Judgment Confessed; Affidavit of G.E. Dennes

• Golding is summoned to appear in court to answer the Plaintiff for the total amount of £8.1.6.

File consists of 6 documents: Affidavit of J.H. Starr; Plea-Denial of Plaintiff; Jury List; Abstract of Trial; Summary of Proceedings; Notice of Trial. McCann is indebted to Starr in the sum of 84 pounds, one shilling and 8 pence for money paid by the Plaintiff for the Defendant at the Defendant's request.

File consists of 3 documents: Praecipe; Statement of the Solicitor for the Defendant; Affidavit of Service. Statement of Defendant Anderson states that the Writ of Summons in the above named cause is "bad in substance' and does not state facts on grounds sufficient to constitute a course of action.

File consists of nine documents: Withdrawal of Suit; Order for Writ of Injunction; (2) Affidavit of Steinberger; Order, (2) Affidavit of Monaghan; Notice of Motion; Bill of Complaint. Defendant is indebted to the Plaintiff for 272 pounds sterling for a lot purchased that the Plaintiff purchased from him in Victoria. Upon purchasing the lot, the Plaintiff hired Monaghan to remove the brewing utensils belonging to the Plaintiffs company, "Victoria Brewery" from the other Defendants' location where he was previously a tenant, and move them to his newly purchased lot. However, when the Plaintiff applied for the conveyance of the lot, the Defendant could not produce such because he had actually executed it to the other Defendant. The two Defendants were in collaboration to prevent and injure the business of the Plaintiff and to prevent the erection of a brewery on the said lot.

No. of Plaint – 479

Summons; Invoice for $77.75

• Engel & Engel are summoned to appear in court to answer the Plaintiff for the total amount of $81.40. The amount is due for various goods sold to the Defendants by the Plaintiffs.

No. of Plaint – 285

Summons; Invoice for £3.6.8

• Engel is summoned to appear in court to answer the Plaintiff for the total amount of £3.12.

Summons; Writ of Caprias. Notice to the Sheriff to take Defendant Johns into his custody and hold him to bail.

File consists of two documents: Order; Affidavit of Stemmler. Defendant is indebted to the Plaintiff for 75 pounds, seven shillings and eight pence for work done and money lent to the Defendant. Plaintiff is concerned that the Defendant is about to leave for California and asks that he be apprehended.

File contains: Affidavit of A. Stenhouse; and Order for Caprias. The Defendant is indebted to the Plaintiff for $100 principal money due on a certain bill between them. The Plaintiff is concerned that the Defendant is about to quit Vancouver Island and asks that he be apprehended.

File consists of one document: an order for Caprias regarding the Plaintiff's liberty to hold the Defendant to bail for $272 owed to him.

File consists of six documents: Writ of Summons; Affidavit of J. Stevens; Affidavit of J. Bailey; Affidavit of A. Brown; Affidavit of J.
Copland; Summons; and Bill of Costs. Plaintiff claims $232 owed to him as payee on a promissory note.

No. of Plaint – 683

Summons; Invoice for £2.10

• Muir is summoned to appear in court to answer the Plaintiff for the total amount of £2.18.2. The amount is due for value received from the Plaintiff by the Defendant.

Evidence of John Stewart.

-Stewart and Braden were a plumbing firm involved in the labor of St. Joseph's Hospital. Kelly and Taylor had done some work for the firm but there was dispute over their account and the hours that they were claiming and the Plaintiff's record of their hours.

File consists of three documents: an affidavit of J.R. Stewart and correspondence regarding the purchase of the cargo of the ship "Shamrock," wherein the Defendant does not own up to the contract.

File consists of two documents: order to hold to bail; and affidavit to hold to bail. Case regards the Defendant being indebted to the Plaintiff for $415 for principal money and interest due on a Bill of Exchange for goods sold and delivered. Plaintiff is concerned that the Defendant is about to leave the colony of Vancouver Island and asks that he be apprehended.