I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of 
Sir James Douglas's
               despatch No. 1 of the 
9th of January, and to inform you that I have laid
               before The Queen the Proclamation, forwarded in his previous despatch of
               the 
20th of August last, entitled No. 59—"The 
Cooks Ferry and 
Clinton
               Road
Bond
 Bond Act 
1863;" and that Her Majesty has been pleased to confirm
               and allow it.