I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your Grace's
Despatch No 3 of the
7 January last transmitting copy of
a letter by
Captain Clarke R.E. accompanied by a proposed
scheme
scheme
for the disposal of the Crown Lands in
British Columbia, for
which I feel greatly obliged to your Grace.
I have given to
Captain Clarke's scheme my serious
consideration and have submitted it for the consideration
of several of the principal officers of
British Columbia, and
I will not fail hereafter to furnish your Grace with the opinion
I have formed of its applicability to the circumstances
of
of
British Columbia.