No. of Plaint – 714

Summons; Invoice for £23.6.8; Judgment Confessed

• Chambers is summoned to appear in court to answer the Plaintiff for the total amount of £24.17.6. The amount is due for an unpaid promissory note between the Defendant and the Plaintiff. It is also due for the purchase price of a farm at Rocky Point as contained in a promissory note drawn between the parties involved.

No. of Plaint – 643

Summons

• Leneveu had previously obtained a judgment against the Defendant for £11.12.8 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.

No. of Plaint – 534

Summons

• Cameron had previously obtained a judgment against the Defendant for £13.13.10 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.

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.

No. of Plaint – 684

Summons; Invoice for £33.18.1

• Innis is summoned to appear in court to answer the Plaintiff for the total amount of £35.4.9. The amount is due for various goods sold to the Defendant by the Plaintiff.

[Coat of arms, small] AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR AND REGULATE THE SALE OF WINES, SPIRITS,
MALT AND OTHER LIQUORS. ... ASSENTED TO THIS 18TH DAY OF JULY, 1861. JAMES DOUGLAS,
GOVERNOR.

Liquor License Act.

BRITISH COLUMBIA. V. [Royal coat of arms A] R. PROCLAMATION. NO.13, 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 FOURTEENTH DAY OF NOVEMBER, 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 Road Loans Act. 1861.

V. [Coat of arms A] R. AN ACT TO ENLARGE THE TIME LIMITED BY THE VICTORIA GAS COMPANY’S ACT, 1860, FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF GAS WORKS AND BUILDINGS BY THE VICTORIA GAS COMPANY. ... RECEIVED MY ASSENT THIS 9TH DAY OF DECEMBER, A.D. 1861. JAMES DOUGLAS.

Victoria Gas Company’s Extension Act, 1861.

File contains: Plea. The Defendant Jones appears and takes defense to the action of Goodman and Goodman and says that he never was indebted in the manner and form as alleged in the said Declaration.

File contains: Affidavit of G. Balls. Regarding the road from Esquimalt to Victoria, erected by the government for use by the public. The stoppage of the road by obstructing the bridge with a bar across the same thereby impending the traffic along the bridge has caused much injury to the property holders on Wharf Street.

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 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 two documents: Summons; Consent to Money Being Paid Out. Plaintiffs attorney to attend in Chambers to show cause why the Plaintiff should not find security for the Defendant's costs in this action.

File consists of four document: (2) Costs; Affidavit of J. Wilcox; Order. Plaintiff had erected and maintained a Hotel on Wharf Street in Victoria which did quite well, being in a location beside the harbour and near the bridge. However, the Defendants then constructed a bar across the bridge which "entirely intercepts and obstructs the transit and traffic of vehicle," they no longer travel in front of the Plaintiffs hotel and his business as Innkeeper has thereby been greatly injured as a result.

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 consists of one document: Affidavit of J. Hahn. The Defendant is indebted to the Plaintiff for $423.75 for goods sold and delivered on the stated account between them

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 3 documents: Record; List of Names; Plaintiff's Bill of Costs. Pryce is suing the Defendant for 107 pounds, 12 shillings, and 6 pence for work done by the Plaintiff for the Defendant at his request and for money founds to be due from the Defendant to the Plaintiff on accounts stated between them.

VON BEZOLD, Albert, Untersuchungen cber die Electrische Erregung der
Nerven und Muskeln. Leipzig, Wilhelm Engelmann, 1861.

Envelopes addressed to Mr. and Miss Shore Smith. Two envelopes with Hungarian stamps from the late 1870s; two envelopes with no stamp marked "To enquire" in the upper left; two envelopes with British stamps; one envelope with no stamp or marking, but with a note on the front signed "F.N."

The Thomas K. Fleming research collection consists of materials related to the settler colonial history of British Columbia, and more broadly, the Pacific Northwest and Canada. Record types include correspondence, newsletters, press clippings, printed materials, notes, maps, legal documents, as well as Fleming`s stamp collection and associated records. Historical records in the collection include content primarily from the nineteenth to early twentieth century on such subjects as forestry, travel, commerce, and postal history. The collection has been arranged into two series: Historical Records and Research Subject Files series, and Stamp Collection and Related Materials series.

The series consists of historical records acquired by Fleming as well as research subject files he created in his study of British Colombian history. Subjects include the Alaska American/Canadian border dispute, British Columbia settler colonial history, the forestry and timber industry, trade and commerce in the Pacific Northwest, and particularly the Nootka crisis and the expedition of Alessandro Malaspina. Record types include correspondence, indentures, pamphlets, articles, notes, presentation materials, and photographs from Fleming's research related travel.

Fonds consists of materials documenting the life and career of William Rose, and includes correspondence (1905-1967), diaries (1895-1939), drafts of manuscripts, articles, translations, poetry, lecture notes, published materials (including clippings), offprints, and photographs. Among these are several pieces written under his pseudonym Jan Rozycki. The records are arranged in the following series: Correspondence, Published Works, Reports, Notes, Notebooks, Diaries, Manuscripts, Translations, Reviews, Publications About Rose, Works by Others, Rose Family Records, and Photographs.

A shipping invoice issued to K.L., Kwong Lee, 廣利. Written verso are some notes in pre-Republican Chinese script.

A shipping invoice issued to K.L., Kwong Lee, 廣利. Written verso are some notes in pre-Republican Chinese script.

No. of Plaint – 688

Judgment Confessed

• Golding confesses that he owes the Plaintiff £6.5.

No. of Plaint – 692

Summons; Warrant

• Gambitz had obtained a judgment against the Plaintiff for £2.17 for debt and £4.16 for costs, and the judgment remains unsatisfied. As outlined in the Warrant, the Defendant had still not satisfied the judgment, the Defendant is to be committed for six days to the common gaol.

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 – 711

Summons; Invoice for £26

• Lewis is summoned to appear in court to answer the Plaintiff for the total amount of £28.15.10. The amount is due for reversing a judgment for the Defendant in Sacramento County, California. It appears that the Plaintiff provided the Defendant with legal services for the said judgment.

[Royal coat of arms, small] AN ACT TO AUTHORISE THE GOVERNOR OF VANCOUVER ISLAND AND ITS DEPENDENCIES, TO GRANT CERTAIN PRIVILEGES TO THE BUILDER OR BUILDERS OF A POWDER MAGAZINE. ... RECEIVED MY ASSENT, THE 6TH DAY OF FEBRUARY, A.D. 1861. JAMES DOUGLAS, GOVERNOR.

Powder Magazine Act.

BRITISH COLUMBIA. [Royal coat of arms A] PROCLAMATION. NO.6, 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 YALE, THIS 28TH 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 HIS EXCELLENCY’S COMMAND, WILLIAM A.G. YOUNG. GOD SAVE THE QUEEN.

Pre-emption Purchase Act.

[Royal coat of arms, small] AN ACT TO AUTHORISE THE RAISING OF A LOAN OF TEN THOUSAND POUNDS UPON THE SECURITY OF THE DUES AND MONIES LEVIED BY VIRTUE OF THE “VICTORIA AND ESQUIMALT HARBOUR DUES ACT 1860.” ... ASSENTED TO THIS 16TH DAY OF JULY, 1861. JAMES DOUGLAS, GOVERNOR. SCHEDULE A. ...

Victoria Harbor Act.

BRITISH COLUMBIA. V. [Royal coat of arms A] R. PROCLAMATION. NO.9, 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 27T~~ DAY OF AUGUST, 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.

Pre-emption Consolidation Act.

BRITISH COLUMBIA. V. [Royal coat of arms A] R. PROCLAMATION. NO.9, 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 27TH DAY OF AUGUST, 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.

Pre-emption Consolidation Act. Different setting from 13-058.

BRITISH COLUMBIA. V. [Royal coat of arms A] R. PROCLAMATION. NO.10, 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 10TF~ DAY OF SEPTEMBER 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.

Distiller’s Excise Act, 1861.

[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.