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32 The Fraser River Mines.
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impolitic to initiate a system there wch wod. not be extended to all the
Colony. I have the honour to be,

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Your obedient servant,
Matt. B. Beasir.

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(Enclosure.)

LANGLEY,
if January 29th, 1859.

>. Dear Becsir,—A difficulty is found here in preventing people

from selling liquors without a license, and to-day I have received an

application from a man who is about to open a saloon in the New

Town™ to be allowed to pay a quarter-licence instead of the whole

year’s licence at once; he is ready to open his store in two days, but

hesitates on account of the heavy license. I myself should suggest

that an order be given to Mr. Bevis®* to grant licenses by the quarter

‘ : just now, subject to alteration when the working of it is seen. I feel

confident then we could prevent unlicensed retailing of liquor and also

a good deal of the smuggling which is going on, as it is carried on

mostly by the unlicensed houses. If you will write me a note by the

Fe “ Otter ” I shall be much obliged, as I am spoken to by every man here

on this subject.

Excuse this rough scrawl as I am writing on the “Governor
( Douglas.”

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Yours very truly,
C. J. N. Beprorp.

: : i Notre.—Received and forwarded with memorandum to His Excel-
j F lency the Governor, 31st January, 1859.—M. B. B.

Victoria, V.I1.,
3rd Feby., 1859,
Sir,—I have to report for your information, respecting the late
occurrences at Yale,** that I left Victoria for Langley in company with
the Lieut. Govr.*7 on board the H.B.C. Str “ Beaver” on Wednesday,

‘ : . (34) Probably the reference is to Derby, about two miles below Fort Langley, where Governor
\ ¥ Douglas purposed to build a ‘* seaport town.’’
(35) William Henry Bevis, who had been appointed Revenue Officer at Langley in June, 1858.
(86) This letter gives a complete view of the conditions prevailing in the mining region near
Yale, with an authoritative account of the “late occurrences ’’; that is, the so-called ‘‘ Ned
I McGowan War.’’
(37) Colonel Richard Clement Moody, who, besides being the commanding officer of the Royal
Engineers and Chief Commissioner of Lands and Works of British Columbia, held also the dormant
commission of Lieutenant-Goyernor. In a letter from Lytton to Douglas dated March 21, 1859
(see the Deadman’s Island Case, before the Privy Council, p. 304), he pointed out that as this
commission only took effect on the death or absence of the Governor, it was improper to speak of
Colonel Moody as the Lieutenant-Goyernor.

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