In reply to your Letter of the 
26th ultimo transmitting copy
               of a Despatch from the Governor of 
British Columbia relative to
               the question of granting assistance to the 
Vancouver's Island
               Dock Company for the work which they propose to undertake, I am
               commanded by my Lords Comissioners
of
 of the Admiralty to acquaint
               you, for the information of the Secretary of State for the
               Colonies, that they will be prepared, should the construction of
               the Dock be decided upon, to extend the provisions of the
               Colonial Docks Loan Act, when revised, to the Undertaking.