No. 7

I observe by Mr Secretary Cardwell's despatch, Vancouver Island, No. 11, of 26th March 1866, that the Commissioners
 of Patents presented to the Government of this Island a complete
set of their publications.

2. These Volumes are now in the Mechanics Institute of
Victoria where they are frequently consulted.

3. Would the Commissioners be disposed to grant another
set of their valuable publications for the use of the Public
Library at New Westminster, the capital of the Colony? It may
 be in your Lordship's recollection that Her Majesty recently
presented a Volume containing the principal Speeches of the late
Prince Consort to the excellent institution in whose favour I
make the present appeal.