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Date: 1865-02-24
By: Edward Cardwell
Citation: Despatch from Right Hon. Edward Cardwell to Viscount Monck (24 February 1865) in UK, Parliament, Correspondence respecting the Proposed Union of the British North American Provinces (London: George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode, 1867).
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No. 3.

COPY of a DESPATCH from the Right Hon. EDWARD CARDWELL, M.P., to Viscount MONCK.

(No. 30.)

Downing Street, February 24, 1865.

MY LORD,

I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Despatch, No. 35, * of the 30th of January, enclosing a copy of a Circular Despatch which you addressed on that day to the Lieut – Governors of the Lower Provinces, and to the Governor of Newfoundland, respecting the proposed Union of the British North American Colonies.

I have, &c.

(Signed) EDWARD CARDWELL.

Viscount Monck,
&c. &c.