File consists of two documents: garnishee order; correspondence. Case regards a debt of $320.94 and $19.30 taxed cost, debtors to attend in court to settle the outstanding debt.

File consists of three documents: Affidavit of J. Dickson; Affidavit of W. Culverwell; Order for Capria. Defendant is indebted to the Plaintiff for 34 pounds, 2 shillings and 1 pence for work and labour done and goods sold and delivered. The Plaintiff is concerned that the Defendant is about to quit the colony unless he is apprehended.

File consists of four documents: Affidavit of J. Copland; Order; Statement of Appearance; and Affidavit and Answer to Interrogatories. Action is brought about for the recovery of $3,000 alleged to be due from the Defendant as Administrator of the
Estate and Effects of the late Humphreys for work, care, and attendance as a surgeon.

File consists of three documents: Consent to Discontinue; Notice of Discontinuance; Affidavit of Lowenburg. Action has been discontinued, each party to pay their own costs

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 consists of seven documents: receipt of $1,000 out of court; statement of account from Moody, Nelson and Co.; answers of H. Nelson; summons; certificate of payment into court; affidavit of Edwin Johnson; affidavit of H. Nelson. Case regarding the dissolution of a co-partnership between parties for carrying on the business of lumbering in Burrard Inlet, Plaintiff claiming $8,064.82 owed to him by the Defendant.

BRITISH COLUMBIA. V. [Coat of arms A] R. DITCHES. RULES AND REGULATIONS UNDER “THE GOLD FIELDS’ ACT, 1859.” ... {L.S.} ISSUED UNDER THE PUBLIC SEAL OF THE SAID COLONY, AT LILLOOET, THIS 29TH DAY OF SEPTEMBER, IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND SIXTY-TWO, AND IN THE TWENTY-SIXTH YEAR OF HER MAJESTY’S REIGN, BY ME, JAMES DOUGLAS. BY HIS EXCELLENCY’S COMMAND, WILLIAM A.G. YOUNG. GOD SAVE THE QUEEN.

File consists of eleven documents: Commissions to A.H. Richardson, Esq.; Affidavit of A. Richards; Notice of Examination Under Commission; Plaintiff's Answers to Defendant's Interrogatories; Affidavit answering Interrogatories; Affidavit of Anderson and Bishop in Support of Order for Interrogatories; Affidavit of Dodgson; Affidavit of Anderson in Order for Discovery; Rule to Discontinue; Particulars of Demand; and Order.

Action is brought about by the Plaintiff to recover money owed to him be the Defendant and for a breach of contract between them regarding the purchase of cattle from Oregon. Plaintiff claims that he had settled his accounts with the Defendant which were recorded in a ledger of some sort and he asks that those records be admissible in his case. Judge rules that this action be discontinued.

File contains: Affidavit of T. Donahue; Order of Court. The plaintiff is filing for a dissolution of the partnership between himself and the Defendant and for a final accounting and settlement of all affairs of the said co-partnership.

File consists of eight documents: Amended Notice of Motion; Rule and Abstract of the Court; Rule of Court Nisi; Order of the Court;
Affidavit of Cary; Notice to Defendants; Acknowledgment; Affidavit of Service of Notice of Motion. Defendants are indebted to the Plaintiff for 500 pounds

File consists of 2 documents: Writ of Summons; Petition of Appeal. Plaintiff was employed by the Defendants as a caulker in construction of the steam vessel "Caledonia". One day, the Plaintiff had to perform some work on the bottom of the ship and the Defendants were to secure the vessel so that the Plaintiff could work safely underneath the ship. The Defendants did not take such care in securing and supporting the vessel. The said vessel fell down on the Plaintiff, crushing and maiming him. The Plaintiff claims 504 pounds, 5 shillings, 5 pence sterling.

File contains: Summons; Record; Affidavit of Defendant for substitution of Attorney; Summons for Particulars of Plaintiff's demand; and Summons to Change Attorney. The Plaintiffs, at the request of the Defendants, were to manufacture and make for the Defendant certain machinery goods (hammer, plates, bolts, screws and nuts) which the Defendant would then pay for when they were complete. When they were finished and delivered, the Defendants refused to pay them for their labours and the Plaintiff claims 100 pounds on unpaid against stated between themselves and the Defendant.

No. of Plaint – 1861.90

Summons; Invoice for £4.19.4

• Allott is summoned to appear in court to answer the Plaintiff for the total amount of £5.6.0. The amount is due for goods sold to the Defendant by the Plaintiff.

File consists of 1 document: Special Power of Attorney. Downie appoints Higgins as his attorney and in that regard to receive any sum or sums of money due to him by W. Searby, an insolvent debtor.

Affidavit of C. Shaffer; Writ of Summons; Judgment by Default; Costs.

-Plaintiffs claim $302.82 cash due to them on a note payable. the Judge rules in their favor.

File consists of four documents: Summons; Affidavit of Service; Judgment by Default, Bill of Costs. Plaintiff claims $332.50 for debt, S 1 7.00 for costs as the amount due for principal on a deed plus interest

File consists of two documents: writ of summons; and affidavit of service. Plaintiff claims $132 principal due to him as payee on a promissory note.

File consists of six documents: Record; Affidavit of Increase; Affidavit to Hold to Bail; Defendant's Bill of Costs; Order to Hold to Bail; Plaintiffs Bill of Costs. Defendant is indebted to the Plaintiff for $171.66 for money payable by the Defendant to the Plaintiff for goods sold and delivered and for work done and materials provided.

No. of Plaint – 690

Summons; Invoice for £24.2.11; Judgment Confessed

• Clark is summoned to appear in court to answer the Plaintiff for the total amount of £25.9.7. The amount is due for numerous goods sold to the Defendant by the Plaintiff.

No. of Plaint – 684

Summons

• Marmiesse is summoned to appear in court to answer the Plaintiff for the total amount of £40.11.1. The particulars for what the amount is due for are not indicated.

No. of Plaint – 735

Summons; Invoice for £3.8.4

• Nias is summoned to appear in court to answer the Plaintiff for the total amount of £3.13.8. The amount is due for various goods sold to the Defendant by the Plaintiff.

File consists of two documents: Affidavit to Hold to Bail; and Order to Hold to Bail. Plaintiff claims $160 owed to him by the Defendant. The Defendant is about to leave the jurisdiction of the court and the Plaintiff asks that he be apprehended.

File contains: Appearance and Defense; Original Writ. Plaintiff claims that the Defendants are indebted to him for 70 pounds, 12 shillings and 6 pence as the balance due on some lumber sold and delivered to them at their request.

File consists of seven documents: final judgment; (2) affidavit of Dunlevy and Wright; correspondence; affidavit of Brousseau; subpoena; appearance. Case regards the plaintiff suing for wrongful treatment, breach of contracts in regards to delivery, sale and use of goods in the amount of $5,000.

File consists of 5 documents: Particulars of Plaintiff's demand; Record; Affidavit of P. Dunlevy; Summons; Order. The Plaintiffs, carrying on business as Dunlevy and Company, are suing the Defendant for converting to his own use and wrongfully depriving the Plaintiffs of the use and possession of the Plaintiff's goods that were to be carried by the Defendant from Quesnellemouth to Tatlah. They also sue the Defendant for money payable by the Defendant to the Plaintiffs for goods sold and delivered by the Plaintiffs to the Defendant at the Defendant's request. The Plaintiffs claim $5,000.

File consists of 1 document: Order. Order that a perpetual injunction be awarded against the Defendant to restrain him and his workmen from proceeding with the cut and works in the Bill of Complaint in this cause mentioned and from doing any matter or thing whereby the quantity of water running in the Plaintiff's ditch or the supply of water for the same be in anyway stopped or affected.

File consists of one document: Affidavit of Crow regarding the waterflow from a ditch on the Plaintiffs property. Plaintiffs object to the Defendant interfering with the natural course of the water that flows to the Defendant's mill such as constructing a dam. Plaintiffs use the running water to irrigate their lands.

Examination of the Defendant.

-Regarding a will left by the Defendant's father that seems to have been misplaced. Difficulties have arisen over the settlement of the estate.

File consists of five documents: (2) affidavit of J. Dunsmuir; affidavit of M. Bate; affidavit of A. Haslan; affidavit of W.A. Pinder. Case regards J. Dunsmuir, proprietor of coal mine in Nanaimo, concerned that the city has plans to erect a post-house quarantine for persons suffering from small pox on or near his proerty.

File consists of four documents: writ; affidavit of service; bill of costs; and judgment by default of appearance. Case regards the Plaintiff's claim of $1,182.72 for debt and $17.50 for costs for balance of an account due on a contract made between the Plaintiff and the Defendant for "sinking a shaft."

File contains: Affidavit of E. Dupuis. Captain Staples and others, owners of the steamship Pacific, are justly and truly indebted to the Plaintiff for 53 pounds, 8 shillings, for the value of certain articles delivered to the Defendants as common carriers to be delivered to him in Victoria. They have not been delivered and the Plaintiff believes that the Defendants are about to leave for San Francisco and he asks that they be apprehended.

File consists of two documents: Affidavit of Durrand; Order. Plaintiff at liberty to hold the Defendant to bail for 21 pounds, 14 shillings for wages due and services rendered by him and his wife at the Defendant's request and for damages sustained by the Plaintiff for a breach of contract and agreement by the Defendant with the Plaintiff

File consists of ten documents: Order for the Examination of J. Ramsay; Examination of J. Ramsay; Commission; Notice of Demand of Special Jury to Sheriff; Affidavit of J.C . Davie; Affidavit of A.E.B. Davie; Evidence of C. Lawson; Examination of C. Lawson; Order for the Examination of C. Houston; and Commission for Examination of Witnesses out of the Jurisdiction of San Francisco.

Action is being brought to recover damages occasioned by the loss of the barge "Rosalia" from the alleged negligence in the towing of the named vessel.

File consists of seven documents: Affidavit of J. Sehl; Judgment by Default; Affidavit of Dyke; Affidavit of Woodcock; Bill of Costs; Summons; Affidavit of Service. Plaintiff claims $105 as balance due for work and services rendered by the Plaintiff to the Defendant

File consists of two documents: bill of sale and affidavit of attesting witness wherein, in consideration of the sum of $700, E. Ord grants and assigns a cabin in Barkerville along with all of the household furnishings, chattels, and effects.

File consists of four documents: writ; affidavit of service; bill of costs; and judgment. Case regards the Plaintiff's claim of $266.65 for debt and $17 for costs for an unpaid promissory note owed to him by the Defendant.

File consists of four documents: writ; affidavit of service; bill of costs; and judgment by default of appearance. Case regards the Defendant owing the Plaintiff $272 for debt and costs on an unpaid promissory note.

Affidavit with support of leave to defend, signed by Dallas Helmcken with 10c. B.C. Law Stamp.

No. of Plaint – 293

Summons; Invoice for £4.18.11

• Jones is summoned to appear in court to answer the Plaintiff for the total amount of £5.5.0. The amount is due for various goods that were sold to the Defendant by the Plaintiff.

Filec consists of two documents: notice; affidavit of W. Duncan. Case regards land owners in a dispute with railway company over land division disagreements.

File consists of 1 document: Affidavit of W. Pollard. Pollard is the solicitor for the Defendant who is a minister of the Bible Christian Church in England.

File consists of eight documents: writs of summons; affidavits of service; bills of costs; and judgments by default. Plaintiff claims $249.20 principal due to him as holder of a promissory note.

File consists of one document: affidavit of Plaintiff of debt regarding the Defendant being indebted for $165.60 for balance of principal and interest due on a promissory note. The Defendant is about to leave Victoria for Olympia, Washington and Plaintiff is asking the he be apprehended.

File consists of one document: order to hold bail which details the Plaintiff's liberty to hold the Defendant to bail for $136.50.

File consists of one document: writ of summons. Case regards the Plaintiff's claims for the sum of $190.64.

File contains: Judgment; Bill of Costs; Affidavit of No Appearance; Writ of Summons; and Affidavit of Service. The Plaintiffs claim $2,335.91 for debt and $25 for costs on an unpaid account for goods sold and delivered.

File contains: Writ of Caprias; Affidavit of T. Harris; Affidavit of W. Culverwell; Affidavit of A. Feitman; and an Order. The Plaintiffs sold the Defendant 632 head of sheep at $948, $500 due upon delivery in Victoria. Harvey left to Victoria with the intent to defraud the Plaintiffs out of their sheep.

File consists of five documents: affidavit of R.E. Jackson; affidavit of service of summons; affidavit of Edmonds; order; and affidavit of J. Webster. Elrick is indebted to Edmonds for $3,266.62 for balance due on a money advance and amount of the standards, note and costs.

File contains: Inciptor of Judgment; Record; and Affidavit of Increase. The Plaintiff brings about the suit to recover money from accounts stated between them for 100 pounds for goods sold and delivered and for work done and materials provided.

File consists of two documents: (2) summons. Case regards the Plaintiff claims $104.96 for debt and $25.00 for costs.