Booker, and you will also endeavor to procure all other evidence which may tend to elucidate the truth.
The opinion of the Court of Inquiry must, of course, be based on and sustained by such evidence only as is embodied in the written proceedings.

I have the honor to be, sir, Your very obedient servant, P.L.MACDOUGALL, Colonel, A.G.M.
COL.

G.T.DENISON, President Court of Inquiry, Toronto.
The Court then considered the application of Lieut.-Col.

Booker to put in his narrative, and after due deliberation came to the conclusion that they should comply with his request, and accordingly gave him permission to put in his written statement.
Lieut.-Col.

Booker then read and afterwards handed in to the Court the following statement of his connection with the operations of the troops under his command in the engagement at Lime Ridge: NARRATIVE.
On the morning of the 1st of June, 1866, at the hour of 5.30, I received the following telegraphic message from Lieut.-Col.