Helps to Under-Secretary of State
Council Office, Whitehall
18 Aug: 1865
Sir,
I am directed by the Lord President of the Council to transmit to you the enclosed Order of Her Majesty in Council, of the 7th inst, leaving to its operation an Act passed in Vancouver Island in December 1862, No: 68; and I am to request that you will be pleased to lay the same before the Secretary of State for the Colonial Department.
I am,
Sir,
Your most obedient Servant
Arthur Helps
Minutes by CO staff
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Mr Elliot
Transmit the O. in Council.
ABd 22 Augt
Transmit.
TFE 22/8
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Draft reply, Cardwell to Kennedy, No. 62, 23 August 1865.