The Queen having been pleased to dispense with the personal
               Investiture of 
James Douglas Esquire, Governor of 
Vancouver's Island
               and 
British Columbia, with the Insignia of a Knight Commander (Civil
               division) of the Order of the Bath, and to empower him to wear and use
               the Insignia of his dignity in the Order, and to enjoy all the
               privileges thereunto belonging in as full and ample a manner as if he
               had been invested by Her Majesty, I have the honour to transmit to
               you the accompanying packet containing Her Majesty's Warrant of
               Dispensation and the Insignia of the division and Class of the Order
               to which 
Governor Douglas has been admitted

 and to request that you
               will move The 
Duke of Newcastle to give the necessary directions for
               the transmission of the said Packet with the least possible delay.