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                Minutes (2), Other documents (1).</p>

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Council Office, Whitehall
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<persName ref="prs:helps">Helps</persName> to Under-Secretary of State
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<opener><ref type="co_ref">10804, CO 305/18, p. 82; received 4 December
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Council Office, Whitehall
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<date when="1861-12-02">2 December 1861</date>
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I am directed by the Lord President of the Council to transmit to you
the enclosed Order of Her Majesty in Council of the <date when="1861-11-20">20<hi style="vertical-align: super; font-size: 80%;">th</hi> Ultimo</date>,
leaving to the operation an Act passed in <placeName ref="plc:vancouver_island">Vancouver's Island</placeName>, in <date when="1861-07">July
1861</date>, No. 17; and I am to request that you will be pleased to lay the
same before the Secretary of State for the Colonial Department.
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I am etc.
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<persName ref="prs:helps">Arthur Helps</persName>
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<persName ref="prs:rogers_f">Sir F. Rogers</persName><lb/>
Forward the Order in Council?
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<closer><signed><persName ref="prs:jadis_v">VJ</persName>
<date when="1861-12-04">
4 Decr
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At once.
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<closer><signed><persName ref="prs:rogers_f">FR</persName>
<date when="1861-12-04">
4/12
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Draft reply, <persName ref="prs:newcastle">Newcastle</persName> to <persName ref="prs:douglas_j">Douglas</persName>, No. 80, <date when="1861-12-05">5 December 1861</date>,
forwarding approval of <q>an act (no. 17).</q>
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