No. 45

I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your Despatch No 23
of the 17th Septr last acquainting me that the Society for the
propogation of the Gospel, have selected the Revd James Gammage,
to officiate among the mining population of British Columbia that
you had provided Mr Gammage, (who will be paid by the Society),
with a passage in the Ship "Thames City which was about to take out
the party of Engineers to British 
Columbia.