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Certified copy of a Report of the Committee of the Privy Council, approved by His Excellency the Governor General on the 21st April, 1923.

The Committee of the Privy Council, on the recommendation of the Minister of the Interior, advise that, in order to Assist Mr. Vilhjalmur Stefansson in placing before the Imperial authorities his representations concerning the strategical Importance of Wrangel Island from the standpoint of an Empire Air Service, he be given a living allowance of $15.00 per day over and above railway and steamship fares necessary for a return trip to England for this purpose, same to be chargeable to the vote for the North West Territories explorations.

Sgd. Rodolphe Boudreau,

Clerk of the Privy Council,

The Honourable

The Minister of the Interior.