With reference to your letter of the 16th Instant;
I am directed by Mr Secretary Herbert to acquaint you
that the dates, on which the several Officers comprising
the British Columbia Expedition, commenced duty in this
Country in connection with their Colonial Appointments,
are as follows,
Colonel Moody18th August 1858 Captain Grant21st August —
Captain Parsons1st September
Captain Luard 1st September Lieut Lempriere1st September LieuttLieutt Palmer10th September 1858.
Hawes, Benjamin to Merivale, Herman 30 July 1859, CO 60:6, no. 7599, 302. 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/B595WA17.html.
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