No. 11

I have the honor to forward with the usual Report from the
Attorney General an authenticated and two plain copies of an Act
passed by the Legislative Council entitled—

An Act to exempt the "Lane and Kurtz Cariboo Mining Company"

from the payment of Duties and Road and Bridge Tolls on certain
Machinery imported and yet to be imported by them for Mining
purposes.

2. The object of this measure is sufficiently obvious from the
preamble and I regard the limited encouragement which is thus
afforded to a costly and hazardous mining enterprise as very
legitimate in the circumstances of this Colony. The undertaking
of the Lane & Kurtz Mining Company if successful cannot fail to
be very beneficial to the Community in general.