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Date: 1865-06-06
By: Arthur Gordon
Citation: Despatch from Lieutenant Governor Arthur Gordon to Viscount Monck (6 June 1865) in Journal of the Legislative Council of the Province of New Brunswick (1866).
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Fredericton, June 6, 1865.

MY LORD,—Agreeably to the request of my Council, I have the honor to transmit to Your Excellency a copy of a Memorandum lately handed to me by them, and to recommend the request which it contains to Your Excellency’s consideration.

I have, &c. (Signed) ARTHUR H. GORDON.

&e. (Signed) ARTHUR H. GORDON.

[Enclosure.]

To His Excellency The Honorable ARTHUR HAMILTON GORDON, C.M.G., Lieutenant Governor of the Province of New Brunswick, &c. &c. &c.

The Executive Council in Committee have had under consideration the Despatch of His Excellency the Governor General of Canada, dated 4th May 1855, and would respectfully request Your Excellency to forward to His Excellency the Governor General the accompanying Correspondence which has consequently taken place, and from which it appears that a large proportion of the Delegates had no knowledge of the alteration referred to until after it was made.

The Council would also respectfully request Your Excellency to ask His Excellency the Governor General to furnish Your Excellency with the names of the Delegates whose signatures are appended to the Resolutions before as well as after the alteration was made.

The Council further request Your Excellency to transmit a copy of this Memorandum to His Excellency the Governor General.

(Signed) A.J. SMITH
R.D. WILMOT
BLISS BOTSFORD
A.H. GILLMOR, JR.
RICHARD HUTCHISON
W.H. ODELL
T.W. ANGLIN
GEORGE L. HATHEWAY
JOHN C. ALLEN

Council Chamber, June, 1865.