Despatch from Right Hon. Edward Cardwell to Governor Anthony Musgrave (12 May 1865)
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Date: 1865-05-12
By: Edward Cardwell
Citation: Despatch from Right Hon. Edward Cardwell to Governor Anthony Musgrave (12 May 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. 5.
Copy of DESPATCH from the Right Hon. EDWARD CARDWELL, M.P., to Governor MUSGRAVE.
(No. 22.)
Downing Street, May 12, 1865.
SIR,
I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Despatch No. 35,+ of the 13th April, enclosing a copy of the speech with which you closed the Legislative Session on the 7th ult., together with a list of Bills passed by the Council and Assembly, and a copy of the resolution passed by the House of Assembly recommending that a final decision on the question of the Union of the North American Provinces should be deferred to the next meeting of the Legislature.
I have, &c.
(Signed) EDWARD CARDWELL.
Governor Musgrave,
&c. &c.