No. 66

Finding from the great pressure of Public Business
that the services of an officer to fill the position of
Colonial Secretary were most essential, and that the
Queen's Service was delayed for want thereof, I have
the honor to aquaint you that I made application to
Captain Prevost Commanding the Satellite, and Her
Majesty's Boundary Commissioner, for the services of Mr
William A.G. Young, Secretary to the Commission whom
I recommended to you for the appointment of Colonial
Secretary in my Despatch of the [19 June 1858].

2. Captain Prevost has placed the Services of Mr Young at my disposal, subject to any calls he may have
to make upon him for the Boundary Commission, and
therefore until I can attain an answer to my before mentioned
Despatch, I have conferred upon Mr Young a temporary
appointment as Colonial Secretary.

3. I trust you may be pleased to approve of this
arrangement, as the services of the Colonial Secretary
were indispensable, and I could not meet the urgency
of the case in any better manner.