Hawkins to Lytton

I have the honour to inform your Lordship, that the Committee of this Society looking to the vast importance of making provision for the spiritual wants of the population so rapidly increasing of British Columbia, have this day determined to send there with as little delay as possible one or two missionary Chaplains.
The Committee make no application for any money grant in support of the projected mission, but trust that Her Majesty's Government will provide a passage for the Clergyman who shall be appointed first Chaplain in the new Colony.