Stocks to Under-Secretary of State

I am directed by the Secretary of State for War to acknowledge
the receipt of your letter of 16th Inst and to acquaint you in
reply for the information of the Secretary of State for the
Colonies that Targets or Mantlets are not supplied by this
Department to Volunteer Corps at Home or Abroad, but when
applications are made, a specification for a Target &c is given
to enable the Corps to obtain the proper Pattern from private sources.

Sir John Pakington has therefore directed that the enclosed
drawings and specifications should be forwarded in order to
comply as far as possible with His Grace's recommendation, and
to enable the Volunteers of Vancouvers Island to obtain the
Targets they require from the Trade.