With reference to your letter of the
7th Instant on the subject of
providing defences for the Colony of
British Columbia, I am directed
by
Earl de Grey and Ripon to request that you will favour him with
three copies of the Maps (large scale) of
that that Colony, which, as he
is informed, have been sent home by the Surveyor General of
Vancouver's Island.
The maps are required to enable due consideration to be given to the
Subject in question.