No. 19

I have to acknowledge the receipt on the 16th April last, of your Despatch No 5, dated 16th July 1853, approving of the
Proclamation issued by me, declaring the rights of the Crown with
respect to Gold found on Queen Charlotte's Islands, and also of the
regulations afterwards published, setting forth the terms and conditions
on which Licences would be granted by the local Government, to search
and dig for Gold in those Islands.