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am requested by the Colonist Defane Committee to acknowledge the receipt of

your

letter of the 10th mot", Travessuthing the paraphrase of a telegram addressed by hi Michael Hicks - Beach to the Governor General of Canada, respecting the defence of Esquimalt and

and Victoria; and requesting

the Committer to take into consideration the question of the defence of the principal

Canadian Atlantic Ports.

I beg to subsit for the information of the Secretary of State for the Colonies reports

Charlottetown upon the place raced in the margine, which

comprise the ports of greatest consequence

The Under Secretary fstate:

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