No. 29

I have the honor to transmit to you a copy of a letter which the
Hudson Bay Company have addressed home complaining that the Colonial
Government fail to give them any assistance in attempting to check the
illegal traffic in spirituous liquors with the Indians on the coast.

I cannot too strongly impress upon you that it is the duty of the
Local Government to exert itself to the utmost in the prevention of this
trade, the results of which wherever it has been allowed to grow up have
been at once ruinous to the Indians, and destructive of peace and good
order.

I have to request that you will report to me whether Ordinance No.
28 of 1867 has been strictly enforced, or whether its provisions are not
sufficiently stringent enough to effect the object for which it was
passed.