PAPERS RELATIVE TO EMIGRATION TO CANADA. / / 9 The amount of donations to the Association; the signature of the party, witnessed by a Justice of the Peace or Commissioner of the Court of Requests, when the same can be readily obtained. N. B.— The return to be made as soon as convenient to the president of the district society, or to the Secretary of the Association at Toronto. Postage in all cases to be paid by the party. Addressed to the Secretary of the " Canada Emigration Association," as, in the event of his absence, no communication otherwise addressed will be opened by the person acting for him. Sir, Government House, Montreal, 3 November 1840. I AM commanded by the Governor- general to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 19th ultimo, enclosing copies of the proceedings at a meeting of the inhabitants of the Home District, called with a view to the formation of a society to promote emigration. His Excellency desires me to thank you for this communication, and to assure you that he has observed with great satisfaction their proceedings, and that he will have much pleasure in co- operating with the society for the promotion of its object. I have, See. ( signed) T. W. C. Murdoch, Mr. Sheriff Jarvis, Toronto. Chief Secretary. Sir, I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of this day's date, enclosing a copy of the proceedings which took place at a public meeting convened by you as Sheriff of the Home District, upon a requisition numerously signed, for the purpose of promoting emigration to this colony from the British Isles. In reply, I am commanded by the Lieutenant- governor to say, that it has been a source of great gratification to his Excellency to find that a subject of such vital importance to the welfare of the Province has been taken up with so much zeal. I am also directed to inform you, that it will afford his Excellency much satisfaction to be enabled to further the object contemplated by every means in his power. 1 have, & c. W. B. Jarvis, Esq. ( signed) S. B. Harrison. & c. & c. & c. Canada Company's Office, Toronto, Sir, 26 October 1840. WE have the honour to acknowledge receipt of your letter of the 19th instant, enclosing a copy of the resolutions passed at a public meeting held at the Court- house on the 15th instant, of which you were the chairman, for the purpose of forming an association for the promotion of emigration from the United Kingdom, and for the adoption of a system of colonization in this Province. We beg to assure you that the Canada Company will, as it has from its formation unde- viatingly done, lend its most ready and zealous co- operation in the furtherance of promoting emigration to this Province, and securing its settlement; we are convinced that we need not give° this assurance, as it is evident that the prosperity of the Company can only co- exist with that of the Province at large, and which can only be successfully attained by pouring into it a continuous stream of emigrants, and retaining them in the country. We shall at all times cheerfully render any assistance to the Emigration Association when- ever they may deem our services available. By the enclosed copy of a circular, dated 15th July last, which we addressed to about 60 intelligent and experienced gentlemen residing in various parts of the Province, the Association will perceive that we have not slumbered in the good cause they are now so meritoriously and efficiently advocating; we have received many reports and returns to our circulars, copies of which have been transmitted to London, and we shall have much pleasure in placing them at the disposal of the Association when they are complete, as we feel con- 368. B vinced