No. 42

I have received and have perused with much interest your despatch
of the 23rd May reporting the result of your observations during a
late visit

to British Columbia.

There is no subject of greater importance to a new Colony than the
establishment of well considered regulations for the disposal of the
public lands. I trust therefore that with the aid of your personal
examination of the Country, and of the extensive correspondence in which
you have been engaged with Her Majesty's Government you will soon be
enabled to communicate to me those full and matured views on this
subject which your despatch encourages me to expect.

The sketch you have sent of the Municipal Institutions proposed for
New Westminster seem very promising and I am glad to infer that the Town
is ready to accept them

which is not always the case in a young Colony.