No. 12
Downing Street
2 September 1858
Sir
In my [Vancouver Island] despatch of the 31st July, No 6, 1 I directed your attention to the treatment of the Native Indians in the Country which it has so recently been decided to establish as a British Colony. I regard that subject as one whichManuscript image demands your prompt and careful consideration. I now transmit to you the Copy of a letter from the Aborigines Protection Society invoking the protection of Her Majesty's Government on behalf of these people. I readily repeat my earnest injunctions to you to endeavour to secure this object. At the same time I beg you to observe that I must not be understood as adopting the views of the Society astoManuscript image to the means by which this may be best accomplished.
I have the honor to be
Sir
Your most Obedient
Humble Servant
E B Lytton
Footnotes
  1. = Aborigines Protection Society Lytton to Douglas, No. 6, 31 July 1858, CO 410/1, p. 147 Cite enclosure?? 12/2 ??
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Chesson, Frederick William

Douglas, Sir James

Lytton, Sir Edward George Earle Bulwer

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Lytton, Sir Edward George Earle Bulwer to Douglas, Sir James 2 September 1858, LAC :, 108. 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/B587012.html.

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