I have the honor to acknowledge receipt of your Despatch N 83, of
               the 
31 December, acquainting me with the nature of the reply your
               Grace had caused to be given to certain suggestions offered by
               
Lieutenant Colonel Foster, Commanding the 
Vancouver Island
               Volunteers,
upon
 upon the mode of appointing the officers of the Corps;
               and I beg to return my thanks to your Grace for such information.