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Judge Begbie. 49
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like him notwithstanding several stories here about him: wch I always
put to the fault of the empty sack that could not stand upright. He is
always against his own interest; fair and liberal in his statements rela-
tive to revenue matters, so far as they come before me; and I never
go to the beach at Langley without some request or another relative
to the boats seized, wch I cannot always attend to. The parties in
whose favor (Simmons or Simons & Co.) I authorized Mr. Bevis
the other day to liberate their boat and stores on payment of £10 have,
I am informed, declined to redeem on those terms. The £10 wod.
have paid the usual fees and Mr. Bevis’s 14 nearly, as he reduced
his valuation from £30 to £24 for the whole. Their refusal, how-
ever, releases me from any responsibility in the matter. Another man,
Paston, applied to me this morning; he had two trunks seized on
board one of the many boats going up to Fort Hope. He was not on
board himself. I gave Mr. Bevis an authority to release them at once
(instead of proceeding to a sale by auction) to the owner on payment
of the full value wch he estimated the property wod. fetch if fairly
sold by auction, and told Paston he might make any application he liked
for a return of the money. This again is an interference in a matter
with wch I know I have nothing to do, but I do not think the revenue
can suffer, and the poor wretch, if innocent, has already suffered mental
anxiety and been mulcted in the sum necessary to pay his expenses from
Fort Hope and back. If he did knowingly wrong, I don’t think he
will try it again. If he was innocent, he has suffered enough.

Bevis suggested to me that he has only one room in all, for office,
living, sleeping, cooking, and he is a married man. However, as he
said he was to be in Victoria very soon, I directed him to lay these
circumstances before you personally.

I do hope the barracks at Langley may be saved. As to the new
Court-house, wch is nearly framed, the two rooms at the back have
not the slightest convenience of any description whatever; and how it
is intended to get at the apartments on the first floor Mr. Fells does
not understand, as there are no stairs nor any place to put them. They
cannot be in the Court-room, as they would block up what alone can
be the jury-box, and if in one of the back rooms they wod. block it
completely up. I did not observe either the parsonage, the church,”
or the gaol; I do not think they are commenced. The snow lay on
the ground the whole time we were there and it was not very tempting
for explorations. The barracks by themselves alone afford adequate
accommodation for all purposes, and will not be wanted apparently

(75) The church must, nevertheless, have been erected in part at any rate, for on May 13,
gee, eee Mr. Crickmer preached in it. In 1882 it was removed to Maple Ridge, where it
s stands.