[Coat of arms A] AN ACT TO CURE DEFECTS IN TITLES TO REAL ESTATE IN VANCOUVER ISLAND AND ITS DEPENDENCIES, HELD BY OR DERIVED THROUGH ALIENS. ... RECEIVED BY ASSENT THE 14TH DAY OF NOVEMBER, AD. 1861. JAMES DOUGLAS.

V. [Coat of arms A] R. AN ACT TO REGULATE THE BUSINESS OF PAWNBROKERS RECEIVED MY ASSENT THIS 28TH DAY OF NOVEMBER, A.D. 1861. JAMES DOUGLAS.

Pawnbroker’s Act, 1861.

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.

No. of Plaint – 757

Summons; Invoice for £6.5

• Rowland is summoned to appear in court to answer the Plaintiff for the total amount of £6.14.4. The amount is due for water delivered to the Defendant by the Plaintiff to a house on Government Street.

No. of Plaint – 759

Summons; Invoice for £2.5.2
-Baugh is summoned to appear in court to answer the Plaintiff for the total amount of £2.9.2 The amount is due for 13 weeks of washing done by the Plaintiff for the Defendant.

No. of Plaint – 835

Summons; Invoice for £2.9.3; Judgment Confessed

• Little is summoned to appear in court to answer the Plaintiff for the total amount of £2.13.3. The amount is due for wood cut and sold to the Defendant by the Plaintiff.

No. of Plaint – 846

Summons; Invoice for £2.4.1

• Glasco is summoned to appear in court to answer the Plaintiff for the total amount of £2.8.1. The amount is due for various goods sold to the Defendant by the Plaintiff.

No. of Plaint – 849

Summons; Invoice for £3.10.9

• Miller is summoned to appear in court to answer the Plaintiff for the total amount of £3.15.1. The amount is due for board and meals provided 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 – 723

Summons; Invoice for £26.18.6; Judgment Confessed

• Vereydhen is summoned to appear in court to answer the Plaintiff for the total amount of £28.5.2. The amount is due for goods and services sold to the Defendant by the Plaintiff.

No. of Plaint – 706

Summons; Judgment Confessed

• Williams is summoned to appear in court to answer the Plaintiff for the total amount of £3.1.2. The particulars for what the amount is due for are not indicated.

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 – 692

Summons

• Bond is summoned to appear in court to answer the Plaintiff for the total amount of £5.14.5. The particulars of what the amount is due for are unclear.

No. of Plaint – 736

Summons

• Golding and Lee are summoned to appear in court to answer the Plaintiff for the total amount of £21.4.7. The particulars of what the amount is due for are not indicated.

No. of Plaint – 873

Summons; Invoice for £8.14.5

• Cooper is summoned to appear in court to answer the Plaintiff for the total amount of £9.6.5. The amount is due for numerous goods sold to the Defendant by the Plaintiff.

No. of Plaint – 704

Summons; Invoice for £11.19.7; Judgment Confessed

• Golding & Co. are summoned to appear in court to answer the Plaintiff for the total amount of £12.15.9. The amount is due for goods sold to the Defendant by the Plaintiff.

File contains: Writ; Bond; Replication; Plea; Order; Judges Summons; Order for Security; Affidavit of M.W. Drake; and Affidavit of L. Lowenberg. The Defendant is indebted to the Plaintiff for 601 pounds, 3 shillings, 11 pence for money due on an account stated between them.

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.

File contains: Writ of Summons; (2) Order; Writ of Caprias; Appearance Entered; Affidavit of Defendants; Summons; and Affidavit of G. Pearkes. The Defendant is indebted to the Plaintiff for 57 pounds, 9 shillings, 2 pence for principal money due on a promissory note.

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.

Writ of Summons. The Defendant is indebted to the Plaintiff for 54 pounds, 10 shillings for money due on an overdue promissory note.

File consists of five documents: Affidavit of Waite; Testimony of J. Monterio; Order, Rule to Discontinue; Judges Order Allowing Appearance and Defense to Action. Defendant and Plaintiff were in a business partnership together and the Defendant Waite is indebted to the Plaintiff for $233.54 for a debt incurred while in this partnership

File consists of 1 document: Writ of Summons (Statement of Account attached). The Plaintiffs complain that the Defendant is indebted to them for 122 pounds, 17 shillings, and 7 pence for goods sold and delivered by the Plaintiffs to the Defendant at his request and also for money due from the Defendant to the Plaintiffs on an account stated between them (particulars listed in the attached Statement of Account).

A BILL TO AMEND THE LAW RELATING TO BANKRUPTCY AND INSOLVENCY IN VANCOUVER ISLAND AND ITS DEPENDENCIES.

BRITISH COLUMBIA. [Royal coat of arms A] PROCLAMATION. NO.4, A.D. 1861. BY HIS EXCELLENCY JAMES DOUGLAS, COMPANION OF THE MOST HONORABLE ORDER OF THE BATH, GOVERNOR AND COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF OF BRITISH COLUMBIA AND ITS DEPENDENCIES, VICE-ADMIRAL OF THE SAME, &C., &C. ... {L.S.} ISSUED UNDER THE PUBLIC SEAL OF THE SAID COLONY, AT VICTORIA, VANCOUVER ISLAND, THE 9TH DAY OF MAY, IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD, ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND SIXTY ONE, AND IN THE TWENTY-FOURTH YEAR OF HER MAJESTY’S REIGN, BY ME, JAMES DOUGLAS. BY COMMAND OF HIS EXCELLENCY, WILLIAM A.G. YOUNG, COLONIAL SECRETARY.

Pilotage Act.

[Small coat of arms] AN ACT TO EXTEND AND AMEND THE PROVISIONS OF THE “FIREMAN’S PROTECTION ACT, 1860.” ... ASSENTED TO THIS 10TH DAY OF SEPTEMBER, A.D. 1861. JAMES DOUGLAS, GOVERNOR.

Fireman’s Protection Act, 1861.

BRITISH COLUMBIA. V. [Royal coat of arms A] R. PROCLAMATION. NO.11, A.D., 1861. BY HIS EXCELLENCY JAMES DOUGLAS, COMPANION OF THE MOST HONORABLE ORDER OF THE BATH, GOVERNOR AND COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF OF BRITISH COLUMBIA, AND ITS DEPENDENCIES, VICE-ADMIRAL OF THE SAME, &C., &C. ... {L.S.} ISSUED UNDER THE PUBLIC SEAL OF THE SAID COLONY, AT VICTORIA, VANCOUVER ISLAND, THIS TWENTY-SECOND DAY OF OCTOBER, IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND SIXTY-ONE, AND IN THE TWENTY-FIFTH YEAR OF HER MAJESTY’S REIGN, BY ME, JAMES DOUGLAS. BY HIS EXCELLENCY’S COMMAND, WILLIAM A.G. YOUNG. GOD SAVE THE QUEEN.

BRITISH COLUMBIA. V. [Royal coat of arms A] R. PROCLAMATION. NO.12, A.D., 1861. BY HIS EXCELLENCY JAMES DOUGLAS, COMPANION OF THE MOST HONORABLE ORDER OF THE BATH, GOVERNOR AND COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF OF BRITISH COLUMBIA, AND ITS DEPENDENCIES, VICE-ADMIRAL OF THE SAME, &C., &C. ... {L.S.} ISSUED UNDER THE PUBLIC SEAL OF THE SAID COLONY, AT VICTORIA, VANCOUVER ISLAND, THIS TWENTY-NINTH DAY OF OCTOBER, IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND SIXTY-ONE, AND IN THE TWENTY-FIFTH YEAR OF HER MAJESTY’S REIGN, BY ME, JAMES DOUGLAS. BY HIS EXCELLENCY’S COMMAND, WILLIAM AG. YOUNG. GOD SAVE THE QUEEN.

[Coat of arms A] AN ACT TO AMEND THE PROCEDURE IN CIVIL CASES. ... RECEIVED MY ASSENT
THIS 14TH DAY OF NOVEMBER, AD. 1861. JAMES DOUGLAS.

V. [Coat of arms A] R. AN ACT TO EXTEND THE PROVISIONS OF THE LIMITATION OF FOREIGN ACTIONS ACT, 1860. ... RECEIVED MY ASSENT THIS 24TH DAY OF DECEMBER, A.D. 1861. JAMES DOUGLAS.

Includes claim regarding invoice of provision. Michael Muir was an unpopular early sheriff in Victoria.

Includes claim regarding detailed invoice of provisions.

File contains: Writ of Caprias to the Sheriff of Vancouver Island to seize the goods and chattels of Defendant Green to the sum of 14 pounds, 12 shillings and one pence as stated in the Order issued in the above cause.

File contains: Affidavit of Wood and Culverwell; and an Order. The Defendant is indebted to the Plaintiff for $71.34 for privileged monies due to the Plaintiff on a judgment obtained against the said Defendant in the State of California. Plaintiff is concerned that the Defendant is about to quit the colony and asks that he be apprehended.

File consists of three documents: (2) Summary Suits; Promise to Pay. Bunster confessed the action and that the Plaintiff has suffered $250 damages

No. of Plaint – 659

Summons

• McNeshanie had recovered a judgment against the Defendant for £10.8.4. The account remains unsettled and if the Defendant does not appear in obedience to the summons, he may be committed to the common gaol.

No. of Plaint – 689

Summons; Invoice for £1.19.6; Judgment Confessed

• Lee is summoned to appear in court to answer the Plaintiff for the total amount of £2.2.4. The amount is due for 2 pairs of socks, cleaning and binding a cap, and altering a cricket coat.

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 – 703

36 Summons; Invoice for £1.7.5

• Richards 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 – 708

• Robertson is summoned to appear in court to answer the Plaintiff for the total amount of £2.10.10. The amount is due for various goods sold to the Defendant by the Plaintiff.

No. of Plaint – 713

Summons; Invoice for £2.9.5

• Harris is summoned to appear in court to answer the Plaintiff for the total amount of £2.13.5. The amount is due for 19 dozen eggs sold to the Defendant 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 – 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.

No. of Plaint – 724

Summons; Invoice for £3.7.8

• Cochrane is summoned to appear in court to answer the Plaintiff for the total amount of £3.13. The amount is due for various goods and services sold to the Defendant by the Plaintiff.

No. of Plaint – 837

Summons; Invoice for £7.5.10; Summons re. Execution No. 88; Bill of Costs

• McField is summoned to appear in court to answer the Plaintiff for the total amount of £7.16.6. The amount is due for money borrowed from the Plaintiff by the Defendant. The judgment remained unsatisfied and the court has again summoned the Defendant to attend to the debt or his goods and chattels will be sold to fulfill the judgment against him.

No. of Plaint – 838

Summons; Invoice for £2.18.4

• Lemmiker is summoned to appear in court to answer the Plaintiff for the total amount of £3.2.4. The amount is due for value received from the Plaintiff by the Defendant.

No. of Plaint – 843

Summons; Invoice for £19.13.9; Judgment Confessed

• Nunn is summoned to appear in court to answer the Plaintiff for the total amount of £22.5.5. The amount is due for rent of a house, furniture and money lent by the Plaintiff to the Defendant.

No. of Plaint – 848

Summons; Invoice for £0.14.6

• Bunster is summoned to appear in court to answer the Plaintiff for the total amount of £0.15.10. The amount is due for 2 pictures and a frying pan sold to the Defendant by the Plaintiff.

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 – 854

Summons; Invoice for £13.6.8

• Lenevue is summoned to appear in court to answer the Plaintiff for the total amount of £14.5.4. The amount is due for goods and services sold to the Defendant by the Plaintiff.