I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your despatches
Nos. 146 of the
22nd November and 2 of the
1st February—the first
enclosing copies of a correspondence with
Mr. Alfred Waddington
relative to his application for a Charter granting him certain
privileges in the
event event of his making a road from
Bute Inlet, across
the
Rocky Mountains to the Hudsons Bay territory beyond, the second
containing additional remarks respecting his project.