I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your Grace's
               Despatch of the 
21 October No 32 informing me that the
               Master of the Mint has been authorized to carry into effect
               arrangements for 
the
               
the establishment of an 
Assay Office in
               
British Columbia, and enclosing copy of a letter from the
               Treasury with an annexure stating that 
M Bacon and 
M
                  Hitchcock had been engaged as Melters.