I have duly received your Grace's Despatch No. 27 of the
29 September, on the subject of establishing an
Assay Office
in
British Columbia, and transmitting for my information, copy
of
a
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a correspondence between
the Treasury and the
Colonial Office,
shewing the arrangements which it is intended to adopt for
carrying the measure into operation.
2. I have the honor to inform your Grace that it is my
intention to proceed with the erection of the necessary buildings,
furnaces, & &, as
soon
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soon as I am furnished with plans of
the same.