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Date: 1866-06-21
By: Edward Cardwell
Citation: Despatch from Right Hon. Edward Cardwell to Lieutenant-Governor Fenwick Williams, No. 41 (21 June 1866) 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. 13.

COPY of a DESPATCH from the Right Hon. EDWARD CARDWELL, M.P., to Lieut.-Governor Sir W. F. WILLIAMS, Bart., K.C.B.

(No. 41.)

Downing Street, June 21, 1866.

SIR,

I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Despatch, No. 44,* of the 6th June, forwarding to me a Petition addressed to Her Majesty by the inhabitants of the county of Digby. I request you to inform the memorialist that their Petition has been duly laid at the foot of the Throne.

I have, &c.

(Signed) EDWARD CARDWELL.

Lenient.-General Sir W. F. Williams, Bart., K.C.B.,
&c. &c. &c.