I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of duplicate of
your Despatch No 22 of the
23 September last, transmitting
a Warrant under the Royal Sign Manual, authorising me to pass
Letters Patent under the Public Seal of
British Columbia,
appointing
Colonel Colonel Moody to be Chief Commissioner of Lands and
Works and I have to assure you in reply that those instructions
will be duly carried into
effect.