Colonial Despatches
The colonial despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871
Public Offices document
Berens, Henry Hulse to Pelham-Clinton, Henry Pelham Fiennes 20 April 1860, CO 305:15, no. 4060, 417.
Abstract
Public Offices document.
Minutes (2), Enclosures (untranscribed) (1), Other documents (1).
Berens to Newcastle
20 April 1860
I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of Mr Under-Secretary
Merivale's letter of the 23rd ultimo, intimating that your Grace was
advised that the best course to be taken with a view to bringing the
pending questions before the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council
would be, that this Company should present petitions to Her Majesty
stating their grounds of claim, and praying specifically for the
relief to which they consider themselves entitled.
I now beg to transmit, herewith, to Your Grace, the statement of the
grounds upon which this Company rest their
their claim to the Lands in
Vancouver's Island which were in their possession before the Grant
made to them of that Colony; and no time will be lost in the
preparation and presentation of the Petitions in connection with
these claims.
their claim to the Lands in
Vancouver's Island which were in their possession before the Grant
made to them of that Colony; and no time will be lost in the
preparation and presentation of the Petitions in connection with
these claims.
Minutes by CO staff
Mr Elliot
I assume that as soon as the petitions in question have reached the Office of the Jud. Committee of the Privy Council a communication will be addressed to this Dt calling for information, & enquiring what proceedings H.M. Govt propose to take in the matter.
I assume that as soon as the petitions in question have reached the Office of the Jud. Committee of the Privy Council a communication will be addressed to this Dt calling for information, & enquiring what proceedings H.M. Govt propose to take in the matter.
ABd
21 Apl
Acknowledge? and request to be informed, as soon as the petition is
deposited. This will require to be watched as the Company seem to me
to shift their ground a little in the end of the statement.
HM
Apl 25
Other documents included in the file
Documents enclosed with the main document (not transcribed)
Statement by the Hudson's Bay Company of the grounds on which
they based their claim to the lands in Vancouver Island that were in
their possession before the grant (50 pages, including copies and
extracts of pertinent documents and correspondence dating from 1846).