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Despatch from London
Cardwell, Edward to Kennedy, Arthur 1 June 1864, NAC RG7:G8C/04, 182.

Abstract
Despatch from London. Enclosures (untranscribed) (1).
Cardwell forwards a despatch from himself to Seymour regarding a telegraph line between British Columbia and the United States. He informs Kennedy that he finds the ordinance in the BC agreement similar in it's objectionable provisions to the Law as an ordinance proposed by the Legislature of Vancouver Island.
No. 9
1st June 1864
Sir,
With reference to my other despatch of this day's date I have to inform you that I have received within the last few days an Ordinance from British Columbia similar in it's objectionable provisions to the Law which I understandisManuscript image is being passed by the Legislature of Vancouver Island. I therefore deem it right to forward for your information a copy of a despatch which I have addressed by this Mail to Governor Seymour explaining the objections entertained by Her Majesty's Government to the grant of exclusive privileges to Telegraphic companies.
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I have the honor to be
Sir,
Your obedient servant
Edward Cardwell
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Copy, Cardwell to Seymour, 1 June 1864, concerning a telegraph line between BC and the United States.
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Cardwell, Edward

Kennedy, Arthur

Seymour, Frederick

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Vancouver Island