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Date: 1867-01-30
By: Earl of Carnarvon
Citation: Despatch from the Earl of Carnarvon to the Officer Administering the Government, No. 132 (30 January 1867) 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. 29.

COPY of a DESPATCH from the Right Hon. the Earl of CARNARVON to the Officer Administering the Government

(No. 132.)

Downing Street, January 30, 1867.

SIR,

I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Despatch, No. 6,* of the 4th ist., transmitting an address to the Queen from the Governors, Principal, and Fellows of McGill College, Montreal, on the subject of the protection of Protestant education in the proposed scheme for the Confederation of the British North American Provinces. You will inform these gentlemen that this question is under my consideration, in conjunction with the delegates.

I have, &c.

(Signed) CARNARVON.

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