Hawes to Under-Secretary of State

With reference to your letter of the 2nd
Instant,

transmitting for the consideration of the Secretary of State for War, the
copy of a Letter from the Bishop Designate of British Columbia proposing
that a Military Chaplain should be sent out to that Colony: I am
directed by Secretary Major General Peel to acquaint you
that having carefully reconsidered the question, he is unable
to find any grounds for modifying the opinion expressed in
the letter from this Office of the 12 August
last.