Lennox to Under-Secretary of State

In reply to your Letter of the 16th Instant transmitting a
Copy of a Letter from Mr J. Scott Tucker relative to the
 desirability of constructing a Hydraulic Lift at Vancouvers
Island; I am commanded by my Lords Commissioners of the
Admiralty to acquaint you, for the information of the Secretary
of State for the Colonies, that, should a company be formed and
the requisite Capital be subscribed for the formation of a
Hydraulic Lift in the Harbour of Esquimalt, my Lords will be
prepared to recommend to the Treasury the application in favour
of the undertaking, of the provisions of the "Colonial Docks
Loans Act."