In reply to your Letter of the
16 Instant transmitting a
Copy of a Letter from
M J. Scott Tucker relative to the
desirability of constructing a Hydraulic Lift at
Vancouvers
Island; I am commanded by my Lords Commissioners of
the![Manuscript image Manuscript image](https://hcmc.uvic.ca/~coldesp/jpg_scans/jpg_thumbnail/co_60_34/co_60_34_00027v.jpg)
the
Admiralty to acquaint you, for the information of the Secretary
of State for the Colonies, that, should a company be formed and
the requisite Capital be subscribed for the formation of a
Hydraulic Lift in the
Harbour of Esquimalt, my Lords will be
prepared to recommend to
the Treasury the application in favour
of the undertaking,
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of the provisions of the "Colonial Docks
Loans Act."