I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your Grace's
Despatch of the
21st October No 32 informing me that the
Master of the Mint has been authorized to carry into effect
arrangements for
the
the establishment of an Assay Office in
British Columbia, and enclosing copy of a letter from the
Treasury with an annexure stating that
Mr Bacon and
Mr
Hitchcock had been engaged as Melters.