No. 23

1. I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your Circular
Despatch of the 20th of April last marked confidential.

2. After referring to the objects for which Public Seals are
entrusted to the Governors of the Colonial Possessions of the Crown, and
the uses to which they are to be applied, and moreover pointing out an
irregularity lately discovered in the use of the Public Seal of a
particular Colony. You proceed to caution me in respect to the improper
use of the public seal of this Colony and enquire whether any seal is or
has been used in Vancouvers Island distinct from the public Seal for
authenticating Local Laws, public Instruments and Documents, and whether
any measures are required to guard against the consequences of past
irregularities, if such have been committed.

3. I have the honor in reply to inform you that the Public Seal of
this Colony, and 
no other has been invariably used for authenticating
public documents and therefore no measures are required to guard against
the consequences of past irregularities.