I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your Despatch,
               Separate, of the 
23d July last, reporting the measures which you had
               taken for creating an Executive Council and a Legislative Council, in
               place of one council as heretofore, at 
Vancouver Island, under the
               authority of the Letters Patent and
Additional
 Additional Instructions of the 
8th October last, enclosed in my Despatch, Separate, of the 
14th of April
                  last.