Helps to Under-Secretary of State

I am directed by the Lord President of the Council to transmit to you
the enclosed Order of Her Majesty in Council of the 7th instant,
leaving to their operation twelve Acts passed in Vancouver Island
in July, Septr, October, November & December, 1861 & January and February, 1862 Nos: 42 to 53; and I am
to request that you will be pleased to lay the same before the
Secretary of State for the Colonial Department.