I have duly received your Despatch of the
8th February
No 17 and I have the honor to acquaint you in reply thereto, that
your instructions respecting the report to be made by
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Colonel
Moody
Colonel
MoodyColonel
Moody in reference to the claims of the Hudson's Bay Company to
Lands in
British Columbia shall be attended to.