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Date: 1864-09-21
By: Edward Cardwell
Citation: Despatch from Right Hon. Edward Cardwell to Sir Richard Graves Macdonnell (21 September 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, 21st September, 1864.

SIR,—

I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your Despatch, No. 13, of the 31st of August, reporting the names of the gentlemen whom you had appointed to represent the Province of Nova Scotia at the Conference at Charlottetown, on the proposed Union of the Lower Provinces of British North America.

I have, &c.,

(Signed)          EDWARD CARDWELL

Lieutenant Governor

Sir RICHARD GRAVES MACDONNELL, C. B., &c., &c., &c.