I have to acknowledge the receipt of your [
Vancouver
Island] despatches of the numbers and dates noted in the
margin
No. 40, 29 September; No. 42, 30 September; No. 43, 11 October.
and to convey to you my thanks for the satisfactory explanations which
they afford of your measures for establishing the Government of
BritishColumbia
Columbia
Columbia, and for maintaining law and order in the Colony.