No. 52

I have duly received your Graces Despatch No 3 of the 22d July,
transmitting copies of a correspondence between the War Office,
Foreign Office, the Admiralty, and the Colonial Office referring
to the disposal of the Land and Buildings at Esquimalt, occupied
by the surveying party under the Command of Lieut Colonel
Hawkins.

2. I have agreeably to your Graces instructions, put myself
into communication with Rear Admiral Baynes the senior Naval
Officer on the station, and I beg to enclose herewith for your
Graces information the copy of a letter from Admiral Baynes, in
which he states his intention of recommending the Lords
Commissioners of the Admiralty to obtain the Land and buildings
in question for Naval purposes.