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I think 14 per cent. per month would be a fair charge to make for keeping Treasure. Wells, Fargo & Co., I am informed, charge only 1 per cent. per month and hold themselves accountable for lodgements made with them.*

The safe here, of which I have the keys, appears to be a very secure one.

I have the honor to be, Sir, Your obedient Servant, (Signed) C. Brew, Chief Inspector of Police, As. Chief Gold Commissioner.

P.S.—It has suggested itself to me that there might be two rates of charges—one a higher rate for insured Deposits and another lower for deposits made at risk.

To Lieut. Governor Moody, etc., Vsctoria, VI.

Forr YALE, B.C., \ 2nd March, 1859.

Si1r,—I have the honor to state that some short time since it came to my knowledge that a person named Davis, who fills the office of Chief Constable at Lytton, kept a public-house. I knew that such was contrary to law, and I mentioned so to Captain Travalliot in a letter which I wrote to him on the 16th Inst. respecting a party who wished to have a Water privilege for Mining purposes recorded.

The following extract from my letter is all of it that related to Davis :—

“T heard on yesterday that the principal peace officer at Lytton while in the public service kept a public-house. It may be proper to acquaint you that keeping a spirit shop or store by law incapacitates a man from being a peace officer.”**

I do not know how Davis became informed of the contents of my communication to Captain Travalliot, but on Sunday last I received the annexed letter, which, it must be said, has a very unsteady tone

(47) This suggestion that the government should accept gold dust on deposit does not seem to have been acted upon. Wells, Fargo & Co. operated an express business between Victoria and San Francisco, purchased gold-dust, and received it for safe-keeping.

(48) When Travaillot was appointed Douglas intimated to Lytton that he would authorize him to select eight men, presumably as police officers, to collect revenue and maintain order. Probably Davis was one of these eight persons; and of course Travaillot had to make his appoint- ments from the material at hand.

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