No. 12
13 March 1862
I have the honor to acknowledge receipt of your Despatch No 83, of the 31st 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,uponManuscript image upon the mode of appointing the officers of the Corps; and I beg to return my thanks to your Grace for such information.
I have the honor to be
My Lord Duke
Your Grace's most obedient
and humble Servant
James Douglas
Minutes by CO staff
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Put by.
ABd 2 June
TFE 3 June
At once.
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