I have had the honor to receive Your Lordship's despatch,
Vancouver Island, No. 5 of
1st January, enclosing a letter
from
Sir James Douglas urging that the freedom of
the the
Port of
Victoria be maintained. I beg to refer Your Lordship simply
to
Governor Kennedy's despatch No. 14 of
21st March 1865,
mentioning that the question had been put fully to the test
in the election for the City of
Victoria and that the partisans
of a tariff had been returned by a large majority.