Grafton to Elliot (Assistant Under-Secretary)

I am directed by the Secretary of State for War to
transmit to you the accompanying copy of a letter from
Lieut Colonel Hawkins R.E. Her Majesty's Commissioner for
defining the British North American Boundary, in which he
suggests that Corporal W Hale, who is serving in British
Columbia under Colonel Moody, RE, may advantageously be
employed in completing the inscription on the Granite Obelisk
which marks the Western terminus of the Boundary.

In laying this letter before the Duke of Newcastle I
am to request that you will move His Grace to instruct the
Governor to give effect to the wishes expressed by Colonel Hawkins.