No. 23

I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your despatches
Nos. 146 of the 22nd November and 2 of the 1st February—the first
enclosing copies of a correspondence with Mr. Alfred Waddington
relative to his application for a Charter granting him certain
privileges in the event of his making a road from Bute Inlet, across
the Rocky Mountains to the Hudsons Bay territory beyond, the second
containing additional remarks respecting his project.