No. 36

1. I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your Despatch
No 73 of the 2nd of June last, transmitting to me the copy of
a letter from the Hudsons Bay Company, and of the answer which
you had caused to be returned to it, respecting the employment
of the Reverend Edward Cridge as Chaplain in Vancouvers Island.

2. According to Your request, I shall not fail to submit to the
decision of the Legislature, the proposal of Mr Cridge to enter
into a fresh agreement to act in that capacity.