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Date: 1865-05-27
By: Edward Cardwell
Citation: Despatch from Right Hon. Edward Cardwell to Lieutenant Governor Arthur Gordon, No. 78 (27 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. 8.

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

(No. 78.)

Downing Street, May 27, 1865.

SIR,

I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Despatch, No. 41, *of the 8th of May, enclosing copies of the respective Addresses presented to you by the Legislative Council and House of Assembly, on the occasion of the opening of the session.
I approve of the nature of the reply which you inform me that you returned to the Address of the House of Assembly.

I have, &c.
(Signed) Edward Cardwell.

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