No. 34

I have the honor of transmitting herewith for the information of
Her Majesty's Government, the copy of a Message which I
addressed to the Legislative Council and House of Assembly of
Vancouvers Island on the 3rd day of August instant and of an
Address in reply which I have just received from the House of
Assembly, respecting the late occupation of San Juan by a
Detachment of United States Troops.

2. I beg to call your attention to the recommendation of the
House of Assembly, that greater encouragment should be given to
emigrants from the United Kingdom than is now possible under the
existing law regulating the Sale price of public land in
Vancouvers Island, in order to insure the rapid settlement of
the Country with a British population; a suggestion which I
conceive worthy of our most serious attention.