No. 47, Miscellaneous
14 August 1863
I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of Your Grace's Circular Despatch of the 9th May last transmitting a Hand Bill descriptive of a child who is supposedtoManuscript image to have been recently stolen from her Parents at Islington and I beg to state that in compliance with Your Grace's directions I have caused the same to be published in the Government Gazette of British Columbia and I will hereafter acquaint Your Grace with the result attending its publication.
I have the honor to be
My Lord Duke,
Your Grace's most obedient
Humble Servant
James Douglas
Minutes by CO staff
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Sir F. Rogers
The remains of the lost child "Elizabeth Hunter" having been found I suppose that this reply to the Circular need not be sent to the Home Office? Put by?
AA 29/9/63
At once.
FR 30/9
Douglas, Sir James to Pelham-Clinton, 5th Duke of Newcastle Henry Pelham Fiennes 14 August 1863, CO 60:16, no. 9504, 87. 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/B63047.html.

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