REPORT 
     
     HONORABLE JOSEPH HENSLEY. 
     
     Attorney General, 
     
    
   
   
    
     TO THE 
     
    
   
   
    
     GOVERNMENT OF PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND, RESPECTING HIS 
     
     MISSION TO ENGLAND ON THE SUBJECT OF THE LOAN 
     
     b'ILL AND OTHER MATTERS. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     To His Excellency George Dundas, quuz're, Lieutenant 
     
     Governor (f Prince Edward Island, fie, do, $43. 
     
    
   
   
    
     ATTORNEY GENERAL’S OFFICE, 
     
     CHARLOTTETOWN, 
     
     20th September, 1867. 
     
    
   
   
    
     SIB; 
     
    

    
     1. On the 15th June last an Order was made by your 
     
     Excellency in Council, authorizing me to proceed to 
     
     England, on behalf of the Government, to negotiate a Loan 
     
     under the Act passed in the last Session of the Legisla- 
     
     ture, intituled “ An Act to authorize the Government to 
     
     raise a Loan of Money for the Public Services of this 
     
     Island,” the amount to be negotiated not to exceed $251!,- 
     
     000 Sterling, the Union Bank of London being appointed 
     
     the Agents under my directions to raise the Loan, and 
     
     authority given to me to instruct the Bank as to the terms 
     
     upon which the Loan was to be raised. 
     
    
   
   
    
     2. On the same day another Order was made by your 
     
     Excellency in Council,authorizing me to apply to the 
     
     various Proprietors of Township Lands resident in England, 
     
     Scotland and Ireland, and ascertain from them the terms 
     
     upon which they would be willing to sell their Lands to 
     
     the Government. 
     
    
   
   
    
     3. I was also authorized by another Order made by 
     
     your Excellency in Council, of the same date, to submit the 
     
     views of the Executive Council to the Imperial (lovem- 
     
     ment in relation to a certain connnunication from the 
     
     Commissariat Departmentat Halifax, signed “ C. Routh,” 
     
     dated 18th of May, 1867, forwarding a demand for the 
     
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     accounts accompanying said communication, made for the 
     
     transport of Troops by sea. to Prince lfidward Island, for 
     
     their maintenance there, and other contingent expenses, 
     
     which the Secretary of State had ordered to be forwarded 
     
     to this Government with a View to its early payment ; and 
     
     which demand this Government conceived to have been 
     
     made under a misapprehension of the facts, and that on 
     
     notice thereof being brought to the attention of the Im— 
     
     perial Government, Mr. Rou’th would be instructed to 
     
     withdraw it. 
     
    

    
     4. In execution of these Orders I left Prince Edward 
     
     Island on the 2t‘th of June, and arrived on the 29th of 
     
     June last, and having addressml a Letter on the 3rd July 
     
     to His Grace the Duke of Buckingham and (lhandos, Her 
     
     Majesty’s Principal tiecretary of State for the Colonies, 
     
     through ll. J. Bryant, Esquire, llis Grace’s l’rivatc 
     
     Secretary, requesting the honor of an interview, I received 
     
     on the 4th of July the following reply :—-— 
     
    
   
   
    
     “ COLONIAL OFFICE, 
     
     “ 4th July, 1867. 
     
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     “ I beg leave to acknowledge the receipt of your Letter 
     
     of yesterday's date, and to inform you that the Duke of 
     
     Buckingham and Chandos will be glad to see you on 
     
     Monday next, the 8th instant, at this Office, about 3 
     
     o’clock. 
     
    

    
     “ Yours faithfully, 
     
     “ ll. J. BRYANT. 
     
     “J. llENSLEY, Esquire.” 
     
    

    
     I accordingly, on \londay, 8th July, went to the Colonial 
     
     Offixc, and had the hinor of being received by His Grace 
     
     the Duke of Buckingham and Uhandos. 
     
    

    
     The matter first alluded to was the Loan Bill, and my 
     
     object was to obtain from His Grace an assurance that it 
     
     would be submitted in Council to Her Majesty the Queen, 
     
     with a rccomniemlation that it should be left to its opera- 
     
     tion. This was necessary before I could attempt to 
     
     negotiate the Loan. The nature of the Loan Bill and its 
     
     object had already been brought to His Grace’s notice by 
     
     your Excellency’s Dcspatch, and by my own Official 
     
     Report as Attorney General, dated the 4th June, 1807, a 
     
     copy of which. marked (.\), is herewith transmitted. His 
     
     Grace at once informed me that the Act would be submitted 
     
     for Her Majesty’s approval at the next sitting of the Privy 
     
     t‘ouncil. and allespztteh notifying this would at once be 
     
    
   
   
    
     forwarded to your lixoollency. No allusion was made by 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
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