The Government Gazette. BRITISH COLUMBIA. Vol. 3, No. 6. NEW WESTMINSTER, JULY 9TH, 1864. Price 12 1/2 cents Table of Contents. Colonial Secretary's Notices General Post Office. Colonial Secretary’s Notices. Page. Bute Inlet Massacre. $250 Reward..................................................... .1 PROCLAMATION. Offering Premiums for certain works and discoveries................... 1 NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC. B .C . Proclamations and Ordinances for S a le .................................. 1 Extracts from a letter from the Gold Commissioner..................... 1 Letter from W . G. Cox, E sq., in Command of the Bute Inlet Bute Inlet Massacre. Expedition from Alexandria................................................................. 2 ROM and after the date of this notice, the convey­ List of Water Frontages forfeited............................................................. 8 F ance or sending by means of Vessels, Teams, Directory,.............................. 2 REWARD OF $250 will be paid by Government, Stages, or through the agency of Express Companies, General Post Office. A upon and for the apprehension and conviction of or by private individuals, or otherwise, of any letter Postal Regulations......................................................................................... 7 every Indian or other person concerned as principal or liable to postage under the Postal Ordinance of 1864, Conveyance of M ails.......................................................................................1 accessory before the fact, to the murder of any of the for British Columbia, without the previous payment Rates of P ostage..............................................................................................1 fourteen Europeans, who were cut off by Indians, on of the postage thereon, (see clauses 14 and 15) is Issue of Postage Stamps.............................................................................. 1 or about the twenty-ninth and thirtieth days of April, strictly prohibited, and a penalty of not less than £5, Government Ass ay Office. now last past, in the valley o f the Homathco River, nor more than £50, is attached to every such offence. Rates of Charges............................................................................... 2 at Bute Inlet. Harbour Master. Dated Government House, New Westminster, 17th The informer will be paid half the penalty recovered. Tenders for the building of a Light Ship ...........................................1 May, 1864. Notice to Mariners.................................................................................................. 1 WARNER R. SPALDING, By Command, Lands and Works Notices. Postmaster General. ARTHUR N. BIRCH, Government Reserve on the Showatee River.....................................2 General Post Office, Government Reserve in the Shushwap District.............................. 2 Colonial Secretary. Tenders for Waggon Road Quesnel to Richfield................................ 2 New Westminster, 4th June, 1864. Proclamations. GOD SAVE THE QUEEN. N o. 6. An Ordinance for the amendment of the ‘‘ Licences Act, 1859." .................................................................................................... 8 See extracts from depositions on page 3. No. 7. An Ordinance to authorize a Loan of £100,000............ 3 No. 8 British Columbia Steam Traction Engine A ct,.................4 PUBLIC NOTICE. No. 9. First Telegraph Act,....................................................................5 C o lon ial S e c r e t a r y ’ s O f f ic e , No. 10. An Ordinance to facilitate the formation of Mining NewWestminster, Joint Stock Companies.............................................................................. 5 N o. 11. An Ordinance to declare the lawful rate of Interest 2nd June, 1864. BRITISH COLUMBIA. in the Colony.................................................................................................. 5 N pursuance of certain Resolutions of the Legisla­ N o. 12. An Ordinance to increase the facilities for Registering tive Council, passed during the late Session, the RATES OF POSTAGE documents relating to real property................................................6 I N o. 13. An Ordinance for the Regulation of the Inland Governor has authorized the following Premiums to Navigation of British Columbia.......................................................... 6 be offered, with a view of developing the resources of, No. 14. An Ordinance for regulating the Postal Service,..................... 7 N o. 15. An Ordinance for the relief of certain naval and and stimulating industry throughout, the Colony. ETWEEN British Columbia and Vancouver Is­ Military Settlers.........................................................................................7 1. A Premium of Five hundred pounds (£500) to be land, delivered at Victoria or New Westmin­ No. 16. An Ordinance to amend Customs Duties......................... 8 paid to any person or persons who shall be the first B N o. 17. An Ordinance for the protection of Inventions........................ 8 ster, for each letter under 1/2 ounce .................... 3d. to shew, to the satisfaction of the Government, that Registrar General’s Noti ces. And for every additional 1/2 ounce, or fractional he or they have successfully worked, by machinery, Prepayment of Fees................................................................... .................... 2 excess...................................................................... 3d. Receipt for Deeds returned.........................................................................2 a vein of quartz producing either gold or silver, within For each Newspaper ......... 1d. Deeds for Registration................................................................................... 2 the Colony of British Columbia. On all Letters and Papers, to or from abroad, and Supreme Court.......................................................................................................... 2 2. A Premium of Five hundred pounds (£500) to be delivered or mailed at New Westminster, in A By-Law to abate the nuisance of swine and goats running at paid to any person or persons who shall be the first addition to Foreign Postage, for each Letter large in New Westminster............................................................................... 8 to shew, to the satisfaction of the Government, that under 1/2 ounce ............................................. 3d. he or they have successfully worked any Coal Mine, Tenders for clearing Cemetery Site..................................................................2 And for every additional 1/2 ounce, or fractional within the Colony of British Columbia, and have bona excess ........................... 5d. Imports for the Quarter ending 30th June, 1864....................... 8 fide produced from such mine two hundred (200) tons For each Newspaper ............................... 1d. of good coal, and have shipped the same to any Port Between a Post Office at any one place in the beyond the limits of the Colony. Colony and a Post Office at any other place in BRITISH COLUMBIA 3. A Premium of Five hundred pounds (£500) to be the Colony, in all cases to be prepaid, for each paid to any person or persons who shall prove to the Letter under 1/2 ounce ....................... 6d. PROCLAMATIONS A N D ORDINANCES satisfaction of the Government, that he or they have And for every additional 1/2 ounce, or fractional been the first to complete, in a bona fide manner, the excess....................... 6d. ROM the commencement of the Colony to the building of a vessel, within the Colony of British Co­ For each Newspaper ............................................. 6d. present time, complete in one volume, are to be lumbia, of not less than five hundred (500) tons bur­ N.B.—Packages or parcels, other than News­ obtainedF at the Government Printing Office, or at then. papers, and not exceeding eight ounces in weight, Clarkson’s Book Store, New Westminster, and of 4. A Premium of Five hundred pounds (£500) to will be charged at Letter rate of 6d. per 1/2 ounce. Hibben and Carswell, Victoria. Price $5. any person or persons who shall prove, to the satis­ No parcel can be taken exceeding 8 ounces in faction of the Government, that he or they have been weight. the first to discover any new alluvial mining district WARNER R. SPALDING, sufficiently extensive to give remunerative labor to NOTICE TO SHIP BUILDERS. five hundred (500) men, for a period of not less than Postmaster General. six (6) months. General Post Office, The Governor in Council to be the sole Judge as to 8th June, 1864. whether any of the above premiums are to be awarded. EALED TENDERS are invited until noon on S Wednesday the 27th proximo, for the building By Command, of a LIGHT SHIP, about 90 tons measurement, at ARTHUR N. BIRCH. PUBLIC NOTICE. New Westminster, according to plans and specifica­ tions, which may be seen by applying to the Harbour Master, who will give every facility and requisite in­ NOTICE TO MARINERS. N and after the 20th day of June, 1864, all Letters formation to persons wishing to tender. The time O and Mail matter liable to Postage must be pre­ considered necessary to complete the vessel must be paid. NEW WHITE SPAR BUOY, moored in 13 feet stated; and the Contractors will be required to enter Until other Stamps shall have been substituted, into bonds for the faithful performance of the contract. A at low water, (the first buoy from Garry Point)