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Date: 1865-10-07
By: Edward Cardwell
Citation: Despatch from Right Hon. Edward Cardwell to the Officer Administering the Government (7 October 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. 11.

COPY of a DESPATCH from the Right Hon. EDWARD CARDWELL, M.P., to the Officer Administering the Government. .

(No. 147.)

Downing Street, October 7, 1865.

Sir,

I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of the Lord Monck’s Despatch, No.183,* of the 20th […], enclosing copies of a correspondence that has taken place between his Lordship and the Lient-Governor of Nova Scotia, in reference to the subject of further guarantees for the construction of the Intercolonial Railway.

I have, &c.

(Signed) EDWARD CARDWELL.

To the Officer Administering the Government,
&c. &c. &c.