No. 10

I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your Despatch No. 69
of the 23rd of November reporting the execution of two chiefs of the
Chilicoten Tribe of Indians, with three of their followers who had taken
part in the recent massacre at Bute Inlet.

It is satisfactory to learn that the law has been vindicated, and I
trust that the effect may be to produce a salutary impression on the
Native race.

I entirely approve the measures of relief towards the starving
Indians which from a sense of humanity, and I doubt not also of true
policy, you have adopted.