I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your Despatch No. 55
of the 20th of August reporting that you had appointed Major Foster to
be Magistrate for the Sooke District at a salary of $1,750, in the room,
I presume, of Mr. Hughes, deceased.
Assuming that you havethe the means at your disposal for paying this
salary, I have to convey to you my sanction for the appointment.
I have the honor to be
Sir,
Your most obedient
humble servant Edward Cardwell
Cardwell, Edward to Kennedy, Arthur 20 October 1864, NAC :, 308. 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/V647244.html.
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