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jected undertakings with a view of more fully 

 elucidating the subject and of collecting their 

 opinions thereon. 



Belford Hinton Wilson^ Chairman. 

 H. Witt.— R. R. Calvert.— Samuel Lang.— 

 William DufF. — George T. Sealy. — George 

 Parker. — J. .v^. Leadley. — William Reid. — 

 W. Hodgson. — J. Sutherland. — J. S. Piatt. 

 — Valentine Smith. — Henry Kendall. — 

 Frederick PfeifFer.~C. F. Bergmann. 



PROCEEDINGS OF A MEETING IN CHILE. 



At a meeting held this day^ convened by 

 H. B. M. Consul General, at the Consulate, in 

 order to receive the report of a commission 

 which had been previously named for the 

 purpose of examining into the practicability 

 and means of establishing a steam communica- 

 tion between the ports and places on the coast 

 of the Pacific, from Valparaiso to Panama, and 

 the estimates presented by Mr. William Wheel- 

 wright, and giving any other information they 

 might consider useful, connected with this 

 object, and report their opinion thereon — 



THEY HAVE REPORTED AS FOLLOWS : 



1st. That they are unanimously of opinion 

 that the estimates presented as per Schedules 



