Booth to Merivale (Permanent Under-Secretary)

I am directed by the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council
for Trade to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 22nd
January last transmitting for the consideration of this Committee
a copy of a report from Captn Richards of Her Majesty's Ship
"Plumper" on the Harbours of Vancouver's Island on the Coast of
British Columbia.

In reply I am to request you to state to Secretary Sir E.B.
Lytton, that as the Lights in question do not appear to belong to
the class of Imperial lights it does not fall within the province
of this Department to form an opinion or to give any recommendation
as to the propriety of their being established. I am however to
transmit to you a copy of a memorandum which has been drawn up
by Captn Sulivan, R.N. of this Department on the subject of
these Lights.