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(Enclosure.)

BritisH CoLuMBIA,
Fort YALE,
12th Feby., 1859.
Captain C. Brew,
Commissioner of Police and Chief Gold Commissioner,
British Columbia.

Sir,—In accordance with the instructions contained in the com-
munication from His Excellency Governor Douglas to your address,
and transmitted by you for my perusal and explanations, I have the
honor to enclose four distinct, specific charges against Mr. Richard
Hicks, lately Assistant Gold Commissioner of this district, which I beg
you will forward to Victoria after the investigation, together with my
letter to your address of the 8th instant, for His Excellency’s perusal
and satisfaction.

I have the honor to be,
Sir,
Your Most Obedient Servant,
(Sgd.) P. B. WHANNELL,
Justice of the Peace, District of Fort Yale, B.C.

First CHARGE AGAINST Mr. RicHarp Hicks, LATELY ASSISTANT GOLD
CoMMISSIONER AT Fort YALE, BRITISH COLUMBIA.

Bribery and Corruption.

In the following instance, viz. :—

“For having at Fort Yale, British Columbia, on some day last
spring or summer, when applied to by one Harry Eyres for a license
to construct and carry on the business of a Ferry at the village of
Spurzum, drawn up the said license, and, showing it to the said Harry
Eyres when the said Richard Hicks had taken him (Eyres) out to a
lonely spot away from the office, told him (Eyers) that he might then
and there have it on the same terms as the parties belonging to the
sawmill across the river had theirs. On being asked by the said
Harry Eyers what those terms were, he, the said Richard Hicks, replied
that the terms were, ‘ That he (Hicks) should have a half-share in the

business.’ ”’%*
(33) In his record-book under date December 4, 1858, Hicks records that he had cancelled
and annulled the privilege granted to H. P. Ayres to erect a ferry at Spuzzum across the Fraser

“in consequence of the stipulations not haying been complied with.’’ The privilege had been
granted in August or September, 1858.

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