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I owe the Government £150 advance of pay made to me in
London and the £100 lent to me on account of the Home Government
in Halifax. I find that my income in this expensive Colony is a very
limited one, and I trust the Right Honble. the Secretary of State
for the Colonies, taking into consideration what I have suffered and all
I have lost while on the public service, will not insist on the repayment
by me of the entire amount.

I am prepared whenever I receive Your Excellency’s orders to
the effect to proceed to British Columbia and take charge of the police
already there established. As soon as I become acquainted with the
localities and understand fully the nature of the police duties in the
Colony I shall submit for the consideration of Your Excellency a plan
for the organization of a more efficient Police Force. My wish would
be to form a body of men well disciplined, well armed, and well
drilled, whose general duties would of course be as peace officers, but,
if required, prepared to take the field as soldiers. This is a scheme,
though, which with the means at present at command cannot be imme-
diately carried out. I assume that the £500 a year is my pay exclusive
of allowances, and in this Colony it is little enough. When the country
is opened up more and settled I shall have to keep horses and shall
have to travel about the Colony in the discharge of my duty. I there-
fore beg leave to request to be informed what allowance will be made
to me to enable me to keep horses, and what travelling allowances I am
to receive, and what extra pay I shall be permitted to draw when
detained by night on duty away from my quarters.

I am compelled also to take the liberty of asking that allowances
will be made to me for house-rent and a servant, the expense of both
of which in the Colony will be exorbitant.

I have the honor to be,
Sir,
Your Excellency’s obedient Servant,
(Signed) C. Brew,
Chief Director of Police, British Columbia.

To His Excellency Governor Douglas, Victoria, VI.

Victoria, V.I.,
llth Dec., 1858.

Str,—I have the honor to state that, having been informed that
the steamer “ Beaver” will proceed on this day to British Columbia,
I have to request Your Excellency’s permission to proceed in her to