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Date: 1864-10-14
By: Edward Cardwell
Citation: Despatch from Right Hon. Edward Cardwell to Lieutenant Governor Richard Graves Macdonnell (14 October 1864) in Journal and Proceedings of the House of Assembly of the Province of Nova Scotia, Appendix No. 3—Union of the Colonies (1865).
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Downing Street, 14th October, 1864.

SIR,—

I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your Despatch, No. 20, of the 29th of September, on the subject of the nomination of Delegates to proceed to, Quebec to attend a Conference there on the question of the Union of the British North American Provinces; and I have to refer you to the Despatch which I addressed to you on the first of this month, conveying to you my authority for sending Representatives from Nova Scotia to the proposed Conference.

I have, &c.,

(Signed) EDWARD CARDWELL.