No. 8

I transmit for your information a Copy of a letter from Mr Begbie
stating the conditions on which he is willing to undertake the opening
up a road in British Columbia; and I have to request that you will
furnish me with a report upon the subject to which it relates.

In sending you this Communication however I do not intend to
express my sanction of a close monopoly of a road as proposed

by Mr
Begbie, a measure which in my opinion would, in such a Country as
British Columbia, be open to grave objections.