I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of
M Merivale's letter of the
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Ultimo,
transmitting a copy of a correspondence between the Governor of
Vancouver's Island and the Captains of Her Majesty's Ships "
Satellite"
and "
Plumper"; and also of a despatch from the former, in which he
announces that he has authorized a temporary addition to the pay of the
crews of those ships out of the territorial revenue of the Colony.