No. 27

I have to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch No. 25 of the
10th of February last enclosing copies of a correspondence between
Mr Cridge, the District Minister of Victoria, and Mr Duncan,
relative to the formation of a settlement for Indian Converts to
Christianity, and in order to carry this plan into effect you propose to
reserve several hundred acres of land in the neighbourhood of Fort Simpson.

Subject to the stipulations which you suggest, namely that the land
should be conveyed to the Governor of the Colony for the time being in
trust for the use and benefit of the Indians, leaving them no power to
alienate or dispose of it, I have to authorize you to take the necessary
steps

for the conveyance of the lands in question.