No. 101

I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch No. 77
of the 7th of December enclosing, with some explanatory remarks, a copy of a Resolution of the Municipal Council of New Westminster respecting a
delay which has recurred in forwarding to me the Memorial of the Council
for the grant of a subsidy to a Mail line of Ocean Steam communication
with British Columbia.

I am quite satisfied that you did not intentionally delay the
transmission of the Memorial nor act with any indifference to the
important object which it advocated.