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Date: 1862-09-12
By: Viscount Monck
Citation: Despatch from Viscount Monck to the Duke of Newcastle (12 September 1862) in UK, HC, Return to an Address of the Honourable The House of Commons, dated 30 June 1864; for Copy of Correspondence between any of the North American Provinces and the Imperial Government, relating to their Application for Assistance in raising a Loan for an International Railway (1864).
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Quebec, 12 September 1862.

My Lord Duke,

REFERRING to your Grace’s Despatch, of 12th* April, I have great satisfaction in transmitting to you the accompanying approved Minute of my Executive Council on the subject of the mode of executing the proposed railway between this Province and Nova Scotia.

I have to add that it is intended that a deputation of my Executive Council should proceed in the course of the autumn to England in order to give further facilities, by means of personal communications, for completing the arrangements proposed.

I have, &c.
(signed) Monck.