Peel to Merivale (Permanent Under-Secretary)

With reference to your letter of the 15th Ultimo with its
enclosure (herewith returned) from the Governor of Vancouver's Island
containing a report of the steps he had taken for giving effect to a
requisition which he had received from the Commander of Her Majesty's
Naval Forces on that Station, I am directed by Lord Panmure to transmit
to you, for the information of Secretary Sir William Molesworth, a copy
of the answer which has been returned to a reference made to the
Department of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty on this subject.