62 The Fraser River Mines.

Langly and there await until I shall receive Your Excellency’s orders
to commence the duties of my office.

I beg leave to take the liberty of saying that if it be expected to
have a Police Force in some working order next spring, when a great
influx of people into British Columbia is anticipated, no time ought to
be lost in commencing to erect barracks and in taking measures to
provide clothes, arms, and accoutrements for the men.

If Your Excellency conceive that the strength of the Force I pro-
posed to raise is too great at present, one-half, a third, or a fourth of
the officers and men might be embodied in the first instance, and after-
wards, if circumstances required, the number might be increased to any
extent.*

I have the honor to be,
Sir,
Your Excellency’s obedient Servant,

(Signed) C. Brew,
Chief Inspector of Police, British Columbia.

To His Excellency Governor Douglas, Victoria, VI.

Victoria, V.I.,
29th Dec., 1858.

S1r,—I have the honor to inform Your Excellency that the bearer
of this communication, Mr. John Carmichael Haynes,® a young gentle-
man from Ireland, arrived in Victoria on the 25th inst. and applied
to me for an appointment in the Police Force which he believed was
being organized in British Columbia.

I beg leave to submit to Your Excellency a strong testimonial
which he produced to me signed by the Mayor and Magistrates of Cork,
and I also beg leave to send attached two letters to me in his behalf

(4) The plan that Mr. Brew outlined called for one hundred and fifty men to form a body of
police. The rate of pay was to be twelve shillings per day. The contemplated expense was so
great that the Governor withheld his assent. See his remarks to Sir E. B. Lytton in a letter dated
December 27, 1858, B.C. Papers, Part Il., p. 48.

(5) He became a member of the Legislative Council in 1864; but is best known as the
first Gold Commissioner in Kootenay during the early days of mining there, 1864—65.