No. 31

I have had the honor to receive your despatch No. 12 of
the 11th of June, informing me that Dr Rae would probably
shortly arrive in the Colony for the purpose of surveying a
practicable route for an electric telegraph from head of Fraser
River to New Westminster, and directing me to afford him
assistance in the prosecution of the undertaking.

2. I enclose copy of a Notice which I caused to be inserted
in the Gazette calling upon all Magistrates, Constables, and
other public officers to furnish Dr Rae with any aid of which
he might stand in need. It is almost superfluous for me to say
that I shall offer him personally every assistance on his arrival
in New Westminster.