I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the
28 Instant accompanying
the copy of a Despatch from
M Adams, H.M. Chargé d'affaires in Peru, stating the substance of enquiries which had been
made of him by British subjects residing in that country
who are desirous of settling in
Vancouver's Island; and also the copy of a communication which
Earl Grey has directed to be made to the
Foreign Office in reference to those enquiries; —
In reply to which I beg to state that
Earl Grey's
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above mentioned is entirely satisfactory to the Directors of the
Hudson's Bay Company, who are of opinion that it would save much time
and greatly facilitate emigration from Peru if
M Adams would undertake to receive payment for grants of land, and give certificates
of purchase to intending emigrants, on the production of which the
Company's Officers at
F Victoria would (according to instructions to be sent from England) put the purchasers in possession
of the quantity of land mentioned in the certificates.