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Date: 1865-02-27
By: Edward Cardwell
Citation: Despatch from Right Hon. Edward Cardwell to Lieutenant Governor Arthur Gordon, No. 54 (27 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. 2.

Copy of a DESPATCH from the Right Hon. Edward Cardwell, M. P., to Lieut.-Governor the Hon. ARTHUR GORDON.

(No. 54.)

Downing Street, February 27, 1865.

SIR,

I HAVE the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch No. 9, * of the 30th of January, reporting that you had accepted Mr. G. L. Hatheway’s resignation of his seat in the Executive Council, and of his Office of Chief commissioner of the board of works.

I have, &c.
(Signed) EDWARD CARDWELL.

Lieut-Governor the Hon. A. Gordon,
&c. &c. &c.