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Despatch to London
Douglas, Sir James to Lytton, Sir Edward George Earle Bulwer 9 December 1858, CO 60:1, no. 1061, 502.

Abstract
Despatch to London. Minutes (2).
Douglas acknowledges the receipt of the despatch announcing that the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel have selected Reverend James Gammage to be the clergyman for the mining population of British Columbia.
The minutes “Put by.”
No. 45
Victoria Vancouvers Island
9 December 1858
Sir,
I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your Despatch No 23 of the 17th Septr last acquainting me that the Society for the propogation of the Gospel, have selected the Revd James Gammage, to officiate among the mining population of British Columbia that you hadprovidedManuscript image provided Mr Gammage, (who will be paid by the Society), with a passage in the Ship "Thames City which was about to take out the party of Engineers to British Columbia. 1
I have etc.
James Douglas
Governor
Minutes by CO staff
Manuscript image
Put by.
ABd 29 Jany
At once.
HM Jan 29
Douglas, Sir James to Lytton, Sir Edward George Earle Bulwer 9 December 1858, CO 60:1, no. 1061, 502. The Colonial Despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871, Edition 2.0, ed. James Hendrickson and the Colonial Despatches project. Victoria, B.C.: University of Victoria. https://bcgenesis.uvic.ca/B58045.html.

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