No. 2, Military

I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your
Grace's despatch of the 9th of October last No 57,
enclosing a list of the names of 18 men, late of the Royal
Engineers, who were employed on the North American Boundary
Commission, and who purchased their discharge on the
return of the detachment to England; and instructing me,
at the instance of Colonel Hawkins R.E., to take measures
for making free grants of land in British Columbia, to the
extent of Thirty Acres each, to such of these men as may
wish to avail themselves of the indulgence, and on the same
conditions of residence and Military Service as were required
from the soldiers of the Royal Engineers under Colonel Moody;
and I beg to acquaint your Grace that I will take steps at
an early period to carry these instructions into effect.