No. 22

I have the honor to transmit for Your Lordship's information,
and with reference to my despatch No. 1 of 14th Instant,
reporting upon the death of Governor Seymour, copy of a report
which I have received from Mr Trutch, Chief Commissioner of
Lands and Works, who accompanied Governor Seymour in Her
Majesty's Ship "Sparrowhawk" on his visit to the North West
Coast of British Columbia.

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2. All has been perfectly quiet here, and no inconvenience has
arisen to the Public Service from my having assumed the
Government of the Colony.