Colonial Despatches
The colonial despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871
Public Offices document
Eddisbury to Merivale, Herman 14 April 1849, CO 305:2, no. 3173, 217.
Abstract
Public Offices document.
Minutes (2), Other documents (1), Marginalia (1).
Eddisbury informs Merivale that he has, as asked, shown Palmerston a letter from Merivale that poses a question from Grey, as to whether or not it is permissible that Adams process land-grant payments from Vancouver Island emigrants on behalf of the HBC. Eddisbury reports that Palmerston authorizes Adams to act as stated.
This file encloses a draft letter from the Colonial Office to Pelly that reports that the Foreign Office has no objection to Adams acting on behalf of the HBC.
I have laid before Viscount Palmerston your letter
of the 7th
Instant, stating that Earl Grey wishes to Know whether Lord Palmerston sees any objection to Mr Adams, Her Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires in Peru, being authorized to receive, on behalf
of the Hudson's Bay
Company, payments for grants of Land, and to his giving Certificates of
purchase to Emigrants desirous of settling in Vancouver's Island. And I am, in reply, to request that you will state to Earl Grey, that Lord
Palmerston sees no objection to Mr Adams being
being authorized to act on behalf of the Hudson's Bay Company in the manner above stated. —
2Sir J Pelly informed 20 April / 49
being authorized to act on behalf of the Hudson's Bay Company in the manner above stated. —
Other documents included in the file
Draft, Colonial Office to Sir John Pelly, Hudson's Bay Company, 20 April 1849, advising that the Foreign Office had no objection to Adams acting on behalf of the company.
Footnotes
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