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Date: 1867-01-18
By: Viscount Monck
Citation: Letter from Viscount Monck to John A. Macdonald (18 January 1867), MG26-A, Vol. 51, 20320-20322].
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18 Jany 1867
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24 Hill Street,

Jan. 18 67

My dear Macdonald,

I had a long interview to-day with Lord Carnarvon.

The draft bill is prepared except the clauses respecting the constitution of the local Governments, and in these and the financial arrangements they trust

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to you. Lord C. proposes to send you a copy of the Bill as chairman of the delegates as soon as it shall be printed, and I think he will propose next Wednesday for a formal conference between you and your colleagues.

I tell you in order that you may sound the “Assembly” in

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time.

If you could conveniently call on me to-morrow (Saturday) at about 11.30 I should like to have some conversation with you about the Hudson’s Bay question. Galt seemed yesterday to think that something might now be done about it.

Believe me to be
Yours most truly

Monck