I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch No. 9
of the
3rd of April reporting that you had granted leave of absence for
6 months to
Mr. Pemberton, the Surveyor General of
Vancouver Island, to
enable him to proceed to
England![Manuscript image Manuscript image](https://hcmc.uvic.ca/~coldesp/jpg_scans/jpg_thumbnail/rg7_g8c_03/rg7_g8c_03_00172v.jpg)
England to superintend the construction of
certain Machinery to be imployed in the improvement of
Victoria
Harbour.
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