No. 67

I have to acknowledge the receipt of your [BC] Despatch No. 114
of the
14th of March on the subject of the policy to be observed towards
the Indian Tribes, and containing your opinion as to the feasibility of
locating the Indians in Native Villages with a view to their protection
and civilization.

I am glad to find that your sentiments respecting the treatment of
the Native races are so much in accordance with my own, and I trust that
your endeavors to conciliate and promote the welfare of the Indians will
be followed by all persons whom circumstances may bring into contact
with them. But whilst making ample provision, under the arrangements
proposed, for the future sustenance and improvement of the Indian Tribes, you will I am persuaded bear in mind the importance of
exercising due care in laying out and defining the several reserves so
as to avoid checking at a future day the progress of the White Colonists.