No. 20, Separate

Referring to my Despatch No 15 dated 21st March 1865 transmitting
certain Resolutions and Report from the Victoria Chamber of Commerce
I have now the honor to forward the copy of a correspondence which
has passed between Governor Seymour and myself.

The Resolutions and Report of the Chamber of Commerce were published
in the local papers on the same day on which I received them, and I
did not therefore think it necessary to call Mr Seymour's attention
to a matter of public notoriety, nor do I think I would have been
justified in withholding a document entrusted to me for transmission
to Her Majesty's Secretary of State while I submitted it for Governor
Seymour's remarks—I was guided by the Colonial Regulations (Chapter
VI, Sections 208-9) in the course I pursued and if I have committed
any error I will be glad to be corrected.

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I perused the Resolutions and Report of the Chamber of Commerce very
carefully and failed to discover any "unfounded statements" which I
would certainly have brought to your notice had I observed them.

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