Ross to Cardwell

I have to apologize to you for troubling you in the matter of
this letter but as I can get no reply to my private letters I have no
alternative but to fall back upon you.

The affixed Note which I would thank you to return is cut from
The Inverness Courier of the 14th August 1862 and refers to my
deceased son.

He was at the time of his death in the service of a firm of the
name of Livingston Fargo & Co who as far as I can learn were due him
a considerable sum of money at his death and otherwise he must have
left considerable effects.

In the circumstances I have to request you to take a widowed
mothers feelings into consideration and issue an order on The
Governor of British Columbia to institute a strict and searching
enquiry into the amount of effects left by him and to order him to
take the necessary measures to cause these to be restored to or
remitted to me.