Colonial Despatches
The colonial despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871
Public Offices document
Smith, William G. to Fortescue, Chichester 21 January 1858, CO 305:9, no. 751, 421.
Abstract
Public Offices document.
Minutes (3).
Smith acknowledges the receipt of the CO’s letter and copy of GP Dawson’s letter concerning settlement on Vancouver Island. He assures the CO that Dawson
has been furnished with the information which he requires.
The minutes
Put by.
Smith to Under-Secretary of State
Hudson's Bay House
21st January 1858
Sir
By direction of the Governor and Committee of the Hudson's Bay
Company I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of Mr Merivale's letter of the 12th Instant, with the accompanying
copy of [a] letter from Mr G.P. Dawson, and I am to state that, in
accordance with Mr Secretary Labouchere's request, that
Gentleman has been furnished with the information which he
requires in reference to the Colony of Vancouver's Island.
The Undersecretary of State for the Colonies
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