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No. 59
Downing Street
30 April 1859
Sir,
The Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty have submitted to my consideration the question of reserving coal, and TimberManuscript image for Government purposes in British Columbia and Vancouvers Island, and I transmit to your herewith, for your information the copy of a report which I have obtained from Her Majesty's Colonial Land and Emigration Commissioners upon it. I have intimated to the Admiralty my concurrence in the views expressed by the commissioners on this subject.
I have etc.
Carnarvon
In the absence of Sir E.B. Lytton
Documents enclosed with the main document (not transcribed)
J.W.C. Murdoch and Frederick Rogers, Emigration Commissioners, to Merivale, 18 April 1859, concerning the reservation of coal and timber for government purposes in Vancouver Island and British Columbia.
Footnotes
  1. The original form of this correspondence can be viewed here. Please note that the original was marked initially as part of the Vancouver Island collection, and changed thereafter, presumably after receipt, to the British Columbia collection.
People in this document

Carnarvon, Earl

Douglas, Sir James

Lytton, Sir Edward George Earle Bulwer

Merivale, Herman

Murdoch, Thomas William Clinton

Rogers, Baron Blachford Frederic

Places in this document

British Columbia

Vancouver Island

Carnarvon, Earl to Douglas, Sir James 30 April 1859, CO 398:1, 274. The Colonial Despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871, Edition 2.0, ed. James Hendrickson and the Colonial Despatches project. Victoria, B.C.: University of Victoria. https://bcgenesis.uvic.ca/V597059.html.

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