No. 12

I have the honor to transmit to you for your information a copy of
a letter from the Governor of the Hudson's Bay Company from which it
appears that the Company have sent Dr. Rae to Ruperts Land for the
purpose of ascertaining the most practicable route for an Electric
Telegraph from Red River to the head of Fraser's River; and they are
anxious that he should, while in the country, have an opportunity of
surveying the probable route for a line from the head waters of the
Fraser to New Westminster.

I am desirous that Dr. Rae should receive every assistance in the
prosecution of this undertaking, and I have therefore to request that
you will cause instructions to be issued to the Magistrates or Officials
up the country to enable him to make the requisite examination.