No. 53

I have the honor of acknowledging the receipt of Your
Grace's Despatch No 77 of the 9th May last, enclosing a
memorandum from Mr Ffennell on the subject of the protection of the Salmon Fisheries of British Columbia, and a subsequent correspondence with that gentleman.

I have also lately received the Fishery Act and official
Reports bearing upon the matter in which Your Grace requested
the Governor of Canada to send to me.

I have to thank Your Grace for those valuable documents,
which afford so much useful information on the methods of
preserving and regulating Fisheries.