No. 42
Downing Street,
19 July 1860
Sir,
I have received and have perused with much interest your despatch of the 23rd May reporting the result of your observations during a late visit to British Columbia.
There is no subject of greater importance to a new Colony than the establishment of well considered regulations for the disposal of the publicManuscript image lands. I trust therefore that with the aid of your personal examination of the Country, and of the extensive correspondence in which you have been engaged with Her Majesty's Government you will soon be enabled to communicate to me those full and matured views on this subject which your despatch encourages me to expect.
The sketch you have sent of the Municipal Institutions proposed for New Westminster seem very promising and I am glad to infer that the Town is ready to accept them which is not always the caseManuscript imagecase in a young Colony.
I have the honor to be
Sir,
Your most obedient
humble Servant
G.C. Lewis
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Lewis, George C. to Douglas, Sir James 19 July 1860, LAC :, 282. 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/B607042.html.

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