I am directed by The Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for
Trade to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the
23
instant
transmitting by direction of Secretary
Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton for their
opinion, copy of a proclamation issued by the Governor of
Vancouvers
Island on the
25
August
establishing Harbour regulations in the Ports of
Victoria and
Esquimalt
and also
Regulations Regulations for Boats and other small craft employed on the
Coasts of
the Island.
In reply I am to request that you will state to
Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton that the Harbour Regulations appear to My Lords to be usual and
proper for the purpose of preserving order and regularity in the mooring
and berthing of Vessels and for security against fire, and that the
coast regulations seem calculated to secure the efficiency of the Boats
and to prevent smuggling.