No. 7

With reference to Your Despatch of the 30th of November last,
No 78, calling my attention to a Petition to the Queen from Mr John Copland praying to be admitted as an Attorney and Solicitor of the
Supreme Court of Vancouver Island, forwarded to me in your Despatch No 50 of the 30th of March last, I beg to refer Your Grace to my
Despatch No 74 of the 30th of November last, covering the required Report from the Chief Justice upon that Petition, and which Report
contained an Explanation from that functionary of the cause of the
delay in its transmission.