stefansson-wrangel-09-36-040-001

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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.