No. 137
16 August 1862
I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch "Separate" of the 29th of May last relative to the increasing population of British Columbia and to the necessity which you conceive to exist in consequence for losing no time in improving the means of communication between different parts of the Colony by the construction of Roads.
I regret that in pursuing this object you should have brought yourself into a position in which it was necessary to resortManuscript image to the issue of promissory notes which I infer you would not have been able to meet had they been presented for payment; but I trust that the authority for borrowing £50,000 on the security of the local Revenue conveyed to you in my despatch No. 131 of the 10th of June will enable you to withdraw from circulation the promissory notes which have already been issued and that you will never againManuscript image have occasion to resort to so questionable an expedient.
I have the honor to be
Sir
Your obedient Servant
Newcastle
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Douglas, James

Pelham-Clinton, Henry Pelham Fiennes

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