No. 34

I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your Despatch No. 5,
of the 31st of January last stating the reasons which had induced you to
postpone the appointment of Mr. W.G. Cox to be Police Magistrate and
Assistant Gold Commissioner at the Kootenay Mines, and to leave him for
the present in charge of the Cariboo District.

On this subject I have only to observe to you that I must
necessarily depend mainly on your judgment in the choice and
distribution of the Gentlemen whom you select on the spot to be Officers
of your government and that I do not doubt that you had sufficient
reasons for the course which you adopted on the present occasion.