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Date: 1865-06-24
By: Edward Cardwell
Citation: Despatch from Right Hon. Edward Cardwell to Lieutenant Governor Arthur Gordon, No. 82 (24 June 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. 10.

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

(No. 82.)

Downing Street, June 24, 1865.

SIR,

I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch No. 48, * of the 5th instant, enclosing a copy of a Resolution moved in the House of Assembly proposing the appointment of a Delegation to proceed to this country to make known Her Majesty’s Government the views entertained by the Government and people of New Brunswick on the subject of the proposed Union of the British North American Provinces.

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

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