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Despatch from London
Pelham-Clinton, 5th Duke of Newcastle Henry Pelham Fiennes to Douglas, Sir James 1 March 1861, LAC :, 416.

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Pelham-Clinton, 5th Duke of Newcastle Henry Pelham Fiennes to Douglas, Sir James 1 March 1861, LAC :, 416.
Despatch from London.
No. 47
Downing Street
1 March 1861
Sir,
I have to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch No. 50 dated the 5th of December last reporting the completion of the Fisgard and Race Rock Lighthouses and representing the circumstances under which you had found it necessary to incur an additional expenditure of one thousand pounds on these Works.
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It is gratifiying to Her Majesty's Government to learn that, with the valuable aid rendered by the Admiral on the Station, the Lighthouses have been constructed in a manner creditable to all concerned in the undertaking.
The Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade have been authorized to accept such bills as you draw on account of this service, in excess of the amount already sanctioned to the extent of one thousand pounds.
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You will bear in mind that a moiety of the whole expenditure on account of these Works is to be ultimately contributed from Colonial Funds in conformity with the intimation to you in Sir Edward Lytton's Despatch No. 63 of the 11th of May 1859.
I have the honor to be
Sir,
Your most obedient
humble servant
Newcastle
Pelham-Clinton, 5th Duke of Newcastle Henry Pelham Fiennes to Douglas, Sir James 1 March 1861, LAC :, 416. 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/V617047.html.

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