No. 66

I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your Despatch No. 65
of the 15th August, submitting the question of an alteration in the
terms of the Oath of Allegiance taken upon entering the Volunteer Force
in Vancouver Island, so as to allow of the admission of non-naturalized
British subjects into the Corps.

I have referred this suggestion to Earl de Grey, who concurs with
me in considering that it would not be advisable to admit the proposed
alteration.