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Date: 1864-08-03
By: George Dundas
Citation: Despatch from Lieutenant Governor George Dundas to Right Hon. Edward Cardwell (3 August 1864) in Journal of the House of Assembly of Prince Edward Island (1865), Appendix E. (1865).
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GOVERNMENT HOUSE,

3rd August, 1864.

SIR;

I have the honor to enclose copy of a correspondence with the Governor General of Canada, on the subject of a proposal of the Canadian Government to send a Delegation to attend the Conference of Delegates from Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island, with the view of ascertaining whether the proposed Union of the Maritime Provinces might not be made to embrace the whole of the British North American Provinces.

I have, &c.,     &c.,     &c.,

(Signed)          GEORGE DUNDAS,

Lieut. Governor.

The Right Honorable

Edward Cardwell, M. P.,

&c.,     &c.,     &c.