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.