No. 62

1. I have to acknowledge and to observe in reply to your
letter marked private of the 16th of October last that I will
carefully attend to your instructions respecting the employment
of the Royal Engineers who have been despatched to British 
Columbia.

2. I understand by your letter that Colonel Moody and his
men are expected to perform all the surveying duties in the
Colony and that it is therefore unnecessary that I should
accept the services of other surveyors, whose employment would
add so much to the heavy expenses, which the Colony is called
upon to defray.

3. Anticipating such instructions, after being apprised
of Colonel Moody's appointment, I made no exertion to form a
surveying corps, and for the survey of the Town sites in
British Columbia, I employed Mr Pemberton, Surveyor of
Vancouver's Island, who also managed the sales of Town
lands, and was most accommodating and useful, in every capacity.

4. The Colony is therefore not encumbered with any civil
corps of surveying officers.