JB/008/145/005

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THE WELLAND CANAL.
5

The fact that the Receiver General of the Province, the Attorney and Solicitor
General, and Colonel Wells, a member of the Legislative Council, compose four
of the seven Directors by whom the affairs of the Company are conducted, is a
sufficient assurance that every thing is intended and carried on in perfect good
faith. These gentlemen, from a conviction of the great importance of this work to
the province, consented, at the earnest request of the stockholders, to become
Directors at an inconvenient sacrifice of time and attention to themselves, and for the
purpose of excluding all ground for that suspicion and distrust which might have
attached to the Company if it had been under the management of persons having
local interests, and possessing no particular claim to public confidence.

I recommend the object which Mr. Merritt has in charge to your particular
attention, and most earnestly hope that his mission may be successful.

I have, &c.
(signed) P. MAITLAND.
To the Right Hon. W. Huskinsson,
&c. &c. &c.
A true Copy.
R. W. Hay.

Identifier: | JB/008/145/005 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 8.
Date_1	1828-06-17	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	008	Main Headings	official aptitude
Folio number	145	Info in main headings field
Image	005	Titles	canada / copies of two dispatches / upon the subject of the / welland canal
Category	printed material	Number of Pages	7
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	(1-6)
Penner		Watermarks	[[watermarks::[star motif] c]]
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	3249
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