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Date: 1866-07-02
By: Arthur Gordon
Citation: Despatch from Lieutenant Governor Arthur Gordon to Right Hon. Edward Cardwell (2 July 1866) 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. 30.

Copy of a DESPATCH from Lieut.-Governor the Hon. ARTHUR GORDAN to the Right Hon. EDWARDS CARDWELL, M.P.

(No. 59.)

Camp of Instruction, Torryburn, near St. John,
New Brunswick, July 2, 1866.
(Received July 14, 1866.)
(Answered No. 7, July 21, 1866, page 122.)

SIR,

I HAVE the honour to inform you the Resolution, of which a copy was enclosed in my Despatch No. 55* of the 23rd […]., has been adopted by the House of Assembly with only eight dissentient voices.

I have, &c.

(Signed) ARTHUR H. GORDON.

Right Hon. Edward Cardwell, M.P.,