Despatch from the Earl of Carnarvon to Lieutenant-Governor Fenwick Williams (11 September 1866)
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Date: 1866-09-11
By: Earl of Carnarvon
Citation: Despatch from the Earl of Carnarvon to Lieutenant-Governor Fenwick Williams (11 September 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. 19.
COPY of a DESPATCH from the Right Hon. Earl of CARNARVON to Lieut.-General Sir W. F. WILLIAMS, Bart., K.C.B.
(No. 17.)
Downing Street, September 11, 1866.
SIR,
I HAVE the honour to acknowledge your Despatch No. 68,* of the 16th ult., accompanied by a petition from certain inhabitants of the District of Port Medway, Nova Scotia, to the House of Commons, against the immediate Confederation of the British Provinces in North America.
I have, &c.
(Signed) CARNARVON.
Lieut.-General Sir W. F. Williams, Bart., K.C.B.,
&c. &c. &c.