No. 3

1. I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your Despatch
No 14 of the 6th of November last in reply to my letter of the
28th of July, in which I requested your instructions as to the
amount and payment of the Salary to be assigned to Mr Cameron
the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of 
Vancouver's Island,
and I observe that you have referred the question to the
Hudson's Bay Company, with whom it appears the decision rests.

2. As Mr Cameron received his appointment from Her Majesty's
Government, and as it is obviously conducive to the best
interests of the Colony, and to his efficiency as Judge, that he
should be placed in a perfectly respectable and independent
position as to the emoluments of his office, may I request the
support of Her Majesty's Government, in favor of any measures,
having that object in view, which may be hereafter proposed by
the Hudson's Bay Company.