In reply to your letter of the 
20th Ultimo, transmitting by
               direction of 
Mr Secretary Cardwell for the consideration of this
               Board, a Copy of an Ordinance N
o 10 passed by the Legislature of
               
British Columbia entitled "An Ordinance to facilitate the formation
               of Mining Joint Stock Companies"  I am directed by the Lords
of
 of the
               Committee of Privy Council for Trade to state that My Lords are of
               opinion that the Ordinance in question may be allowed to take effect.