File consists of one document: affidavit of H. Courtney. Case regards the affidavit outlining that all of the above named Plaintiffs are resident out of jurisdiction of the court. Plaintiff Stewart has been paid $2,000.00 plus interest as appears set out in the Bill of Complaint.

File consists of two documents: (2) affidavit of T. Davie. Case regards the Defendant out of the jurisdiction of the Court and has left unpaid accounts with the above named Plaintiffs.

Invoice of Goods Sold; (2) Receipt for $20; Receipt for $50; Receipt for $275; Receipt for cigars, $61; Memorandum Agreement; Affidavit of T. Trounce; and Appointment of C. Verheyden. Case is regarding the settlement of the estate of A. Kaindler.

Writ of Summons; Notice; Appeal from the County Court of British Columbia.

-The Defendants are charged with stealing the goods and chattels of the Plaintiff and disposing of them for their own use. The Plaintiff claims on account thereof $100.

File consists of 4 documents: Writ of Summons; Judgement by Default; Plaintiff's Costs; Affidavit of Service. The Plaintiff's claim $1,477.12 for debt and $27.50 for costs for goods sold and delivered to the Defendant.

Affidavit of C. Strouss; Petition of Plaintiff; Bill of Complaint.

-Defendants are indebted to the Plaintiff for $5,799.62 principal and interest due on unpaid goods and merchandise advanced to the Defendants at their request.

Subpoena issued to Selim Franklin, auctioneer, regarding claim by merchant Charles McDonald.

File contains: Summons. Edgar is summoned to appear and serve as a juror in the Supreme Court.

The Supreme Court of Civil Justice was originally established as the Inferior Court of Civil Justice in 1857 by Governor James Douglas to deal with the increasing number of petty claims in Victoria. The court was renamed in 1860. Series consists of records including writs, testimony, judgements, and other pertinent documents related to various cases. These records were produced by magistrates, defendants, claimants, and other relevant (and in some cases historically significant) parties including the first judge in BC, the first Attorney General, the earliest clergy, businessmen, and other prominent figures from this period in British Columbia's colonial history. The materials in this series represent a firsthand look at the business and legal proceedings from the colony's early justice system.

File contains: Envelope; (3) Examination of Mr. Pickett under the Order of the Chief Justice; and Order to Examine the Defendants. Various cases against the firm of Oppenheimer and Co. from which Mr. C. Oppenheimer has recently withdrawn himself.

File consists of three documents: writ of summons; affidavit of service; and judgment by default. Plaintiff claims $127 principal due to her as payee on a promissory note plus $15 for costs.

No. of Plaint – 680

Summons; Invoice for £3.12.11

• Joseph is summoned to appear in court to answer the Plaintiff for the total amount of £3.18.2. The amount is due for various goods and services sold to the Defendant by the Plaintiff.

File consists of 1 document: Exception to Answers of Defendant D. McTavish. Document outlines why the answers of McTavish are insufficient and incorrect.

File consists of 2 documents: Affidavit of H.D. Helmcken; Judgement.

File consists of seven documents: (3) affidavit of service, bill of costs, affidavit of no appearance, writ of summons; juddgement by default. Case regards Plaintiff claims $1,015.00 principal and interest due to them as payees on promissory notes, total of $1,127.75.

Writ of Summons; (2) Affidavit of Service; Costs; Judgment by Default.

-The Plaintiffs claim $1,500 principal due to them as payees on two Bills of Exchange.

Lawrence and Bailey were indebted to Strouss and Company, the defendants having declared bankruptcy. Includes affidavit of C. Strouss, affidavit of service, summons of trader debtor.

Bill of Costs; Replication; Affidavit of S.P. Mills; Amended Account; Affidavit of Mr. Thomson; Summons; Affidavit of C.W.R. Thomson; Appointment of Mssrs. Crake and Jackson; Affidavit of R.E. Jackson; Bill of Complaint; Chief Clerk Notes.

-Defendants are indebted to the Plaintiffs for $18,560 for principal and interest due on an account between them for the conveyance of land in the District of nelson, Vancouver Island (1,064 acres). The Defendants are in possession of the said premises but have not paid their debt.

File consists of three documents: order; annexed statements of account marked A, B, C, D, and E; report. Case is in regards to the settlement of the estate of A.S. Bates, deceased, statements showing the full amount of all monies received and disbursed by C.E. Pooley, administrator. See 19-10, 19-19, and 19-20 for more.

File consists of one document: Statement of Account regarding the settlement of the estate of the deceased

File consists of ten documents: (7) receipts of money paid into court; Statement of Account on the Estate; Notice; Bill of Cost regarding the settlement of the estate of the deceased

File consists of one document: Repartition of the 2nd Dividend Declared.

File consists of one document: bill of complaint. Teague, a collector, advertising the sale of the mining companies' properties due to unpaid taxes of $1,553.75 (Eureka) and $931.25 (Victoria), alleging that the lands are liable to the tax imposed by the Mineral Act of 1878. Plaintiffs allege that the real state is not held under the Act or any other gold mining act. They order to restrain Teague for selling their property and to pay the costs of the suit.

File consists of one document: affidavit of F. Wolfender. A statement regarding the current state of affairs in regards to this case.

No. of Plaint – 937

Summons; Invoice for £1.9.2; Judgment Confessed

• Swanick is summoned to appear in court to answer the Plaintiff for the total amount of £1.11.10. The amount is due for printing wedding cards and envelopes for the Defendant by the Plaintiff.

File consists of one document: amended bill of complaint. Case regards the said E. Cridge, acting as Minister of the Church of Christ with no authority or license authorizing him to officiate and perform the offices of clergyman. Defendant refusing the acknowledge ecclesiastical law and failing to conform to the discipline and government of the Church.

No. of Plaint – 428

(2) Summons; (2) Invoice for $245.75

• Roberts is summoned to appear in court to answer the Plaintiff for the total amount of $247.50. The amount is due for goods sold and delivered to the Defendant by the Plaintiff.

File consists of 5 documents: (2) Affidavit of Tilbury; Judges Order; Affidavit of W.A. Edwards; Writ of Summons. Plaintiff claims that the Defendant is indebted to him for $115.73 for work and labour done by him for the Defendant at his request. The Plaintiff is a veterinary surgeon.

File consists of four documents: bill of costs; writ of summons; affidavit of service; and judgment by default. Plaintiff claims $97.50 principal due to him as payee on a promissory note.

File contains: Judgment by Default; Affidavit of Service of Writ; Writ of Summons; and Bill of Costs. The Plaintiff claims $240 principal due to him as payee on a promissory note and $17.50 for costs.

File contains: Affidavit of Culverwell and Wark; Writ of Caprias; Judgment; (2) Writ; Affidavit of Service; Exhibit "A"; Pleas; and Confession of Judgment. The Defendants are justly and truly indebted to the Hudson's Bay Company for 206 pounds, 3 shillings and 8 pence for goods sold and delivered to the Defendants at their request and on accounts stated between them.

File consists of two documents: order to hold to bail; and affidavit of R.W. Torrens. Case regards the Defendant being indebted to the Plaintiff for $1,250 for the purchase money of a mining claim sold to the Defendant. The Defendant is planning to leave Victoria for the Caribou and the Plaintiff asks that he be apprehended.

File consists of five documents: declaration; bill of costs; judgment for want of plea; writ of summons; and affidavit of service of writ. Case regards the Plaintiff suing the Defendant for monies lent by him to the Defendant for an overdue promissory note in the amount of $755 plus interest. Plaintiff claims $1,600.

File consists of one document: bill of complaint. Case regarding Plaintiff's were shareholders in Enterprise Corp., a mining company, and have various complaints that the calls made by the Directors for monies were not levied equally on all shareholders; the books of the company were being kept in a most irregular manner; and not general meetings were called.

File consists of five documents: summons; writ of summons; affidavit of service; affidavit of Colquhoun; and judgment by default. Plaintiff claims $101.90 principal due to him as payee on a promissory note and $15 for costs.

File consists of two documents: writ of summons; and affidavit of A.E.B. Davie. Plaintiff claims $2,397.79 for debt and $7.50 for costs for the amount due for repairs of the vessel Byzantium as per agreement and for goods sold and delivered.

File contains: Bill of Complaint. The defendant is indebted to the Plaintiffs in the sum of $102.38 advanced to the Defendant at his request. Document is quite stained and damaged.

File consists of two documents: affidavit of J. Triplett; and auctioneer's advertisement from the public newspaper. Defendant is indebted to the Plaintiff for $483 for the balance of principal due on a promissory note. Defendant is intending to leave Vancouver Island and the Plaintiff is concerned that he will not be paid.

File contains: Affidavit for Taking Evidence. The Plaintiff is about to proceed to England and is desirous of having his evidence taken before he leaves.

File contains: Affidavit of Johnson. The plaintiff had obtained a confession form the Defendant for the sum of 229 pounds, 3 shillings and 4 pence debt and damages. Defendant now states that at the time of his confession he did so ignorantly and without legal advice and he asks that his case be re-evaluated.

File consists of 5 documents: (2) Affidavit of T. Trounce; Notice of Motion; Order; Award. Regarding an agreement made between the two parties over the personal estate of one
A. Kaindler for which the defendant is the administrator.

File consists of 2 documents: Exhibit "A" (correspondence from R. Bishop); Joint Affidavit of G. Pearkes and J. Strachan. The action was brought about for the recovery of $2,000 in respect of the non-delivery of certain rubble and dimensional sandstone by the Defendants to the Plaintiff.

File consists of nineteen documents: Record; Rule nisi; Examination of J. Dunstan; Affidavit of H.C. Courtney; Affidavits of R. Bishop; Affidavits of G. Hemingway; Commission for Examination of J. Dunstan; Summons; Affidavit of Service; Affidavit of A.E.B. Davie; Affidavits of Increase; Joint Affidavit of G. Pearkes and G. Hemingway; Affidavit of G. Pearkes; and Plaintiff's Bill of Costs.

Defendants agreed to sell to the Plaintiff two cargoes of rubble and dimension sandstone from Salt Spring Island. Defendants delivered the first cargo and part of the second. The Plaintiff was employed and under contract to build a chiveck at New Westminster for the erection of which he required the cargo. Plaintiff had to lay off his workmen and has been deprived of profits which would have accrued to him from the delivery of the said stone. Plaintiff claims $2,000 for losses.

File contains: Order; Writ of Capri as; Affidavit of Plaintiff; and Summons to Set Aside Caprias. The Defendant is indebted to the Plaintiff for 229 pounds, 6 shillings. The Plaintiff believes that the Defendant is about to quit the colony and asks that he be apprehended.

File consists of 4 documents: Judgement by Default; Bill of Costs; Writ of Summons; Affidavit of Service. Plaintiffs claims $668.57 principal and interest due to them as payees on a promissory note.

File consists of 4 documents: Writ of Summons; Affidavit of Service; Judgement by Default; Bill of Costs. Plaintiffs claim $113.11 principal and interest due to them as payees on a promissory note with the Defendant.

File consists of four documents: Receipt for $3.00; Summons; Affidavit of Service; Judgment by Default. Plaintiff claims $1,008 principal and interest due on an unpaid promissory note from the Defendant

VANCOUVER ISLAND. ABSTRACT OF THE REVENUE RECEIVED DURING THE YEAR 1862. [signed at end of first column] ROBERT KER, COLONIAL AUDITOR (ACTING.) AUDIT OFFICE OF VANCOUVER ISLAND, JAN.21ST, 1863.

[Coat of arms A] VANCOUVER ISLAND COLONY. AN ACT TO REMOVE DOUBTS AS TO THE INTEREST OF MONEY IN THE COLONY OF VANCOUVER ISLAND, AND ITS DEPENDENCIES. PASSED THE HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY, OCTOBER 29, 1859. JOSEPH PORTER, CLERK OF THE HOUSE.

VANCOUVER ISLAND. COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF THE ESTIMATED EXPENDITURE OF VANCOUVER ISLAND FOR THE YEAR 1864, AND THE ACTUAL EXPENDITURE OF THE YEAR, AS TAKEN FROM THE ACCOUNTS MADE UP FROM 1ST JANUARY TO 31ST DECEMBER, 1864. ... (SIGNED) ROBERT KER, ACTING AUDITOR.