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Date: 1866-08-03
By: Earl of Carnarvon
Citation: Despatch from the Earl of Carnarvon to Lieutenant-Governor Fenwick Williams (3 August 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. 16.

COPY of a DESPATCH from the Right Hon. Earl of CARNARVON to Lieut.-General Sir W. F. WILLIAMS, Bart., K.C.B.

(No. 9.)

Downing Street, August 3, 1866.

SIR,

I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Despatch No. 61,* of the 16th July, enclosing a petition addressed to Her Majesty by the inhabitants of the county of Lunenburg.

You will be good enough to inform the memorialists that their petitions has been duly laid at the foot of the Throne.

I have, &c.

(Signed) CARNARVON.

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