I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch No. 24 of the
16th of April last relative to the appropriation of the
portion of land at
Victoria known as the Church Reserve.
For the reasons stated by you I have to signify my approval of the
arrangement you propose, and in which it appears from your despatch
that both the
Bishop of Columbia and the
Revd. Mr. Cridge concur, that
the portion of the ground designated as the Glebe should be conveyed
to
Trustees for the benefit of the Church of England subject to the
charges specified by you.