I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch No.
10 of the
28 of January and to state that I am quite satisfied with
the explanation which it affords on the subject of the letters addressed to you by
Colonel Moody on the
24 and
22 of August last, the first relating to the selection of the site for a town on the
Semilkomeen River; the second respecting
the the provision made in the Estimates of
1860-61 for the Royal Engineers.