I have to acknowledge the receipt of your [
Vancouver
                  Island] despatches of the numbers and dates noted in the
               margin
               
               
               
               
                  No. 40, 29 September; No. 42, 30 September; No. 43, 11 October.
                
               and to convey to you my thanks for the satisfactory explanations which
               they afford of your measures for establishing the Government of 
BritishColumbia Columbia
 
               Columbia 
               Columbia, and for maintaining law and order in the Colony.