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Date: 1866-11-23
By: Earl of Carnarvon
Citation: Despatch from the Earl of Carnarvon to Viscount Monck (23 November 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. 24.
COPY of a DESPATCH from the Right Hon. the Earl of CARNARVON to Viscount MONCK

(No. 104.)

Downing Street, November 23, 1866.

MY LORD,

I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Lordship’s Despatch. No. 184, * of the 3rd of this month, enclosing a copy of an approved Minute of the Executive Council of Canada on the subject of the resolution adopted by the Delegates from Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, with the view of bringing Prince Edward Island into the Confederation of British North America.

I have, &c.

(Signed) CARNARVON

Viscount Monck,
&c. &c.