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Date: 1863-10-01
By: Viscount Monck
Citation: Despatch from Viscount Monck to the Duke of Newcastle (1 October 1863) 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, 1 October 1863.

My Lord Duke,

I HAVE the honour to send for your Grace’s information a copy of a Despatch, and Enclosure which I have received from the Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick, in reference to the proposed Survey of the Line of the Intercolonial Railway, and a Minute of the Executive Council of the Province in answer to that Despatch.

I have sent a copy of this Minute to Mr. Gordon.

I have, &c.     

(signed)           Monck.