No. 85

I have the honor to acquaint Your Lordship that Governor Kennedy left
this Colony yesterday en route for England; having immediately prior
to his departure transferred to me, as the Senior Member of the
Executive Council, the administration of the Government, which I have
consequently assumed pending the Union of Vancouver's Island with
British Columbia.

2. I have appointed Mr Edwin James Nesbitt, Chief Clerk in the
Colonial Secretary's Office, to act for the time, as Colonial Secretary.