I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your Grace's Despatch
of the
21 February last marked Confidential, enclosing copy of an
opinion obtained of
thethe Law Advisers of the Crown on the question, to
whom the right of disposing of the proceeds of the sale of public
land will belong, when the rights of the
Hudson's Bay Company have
ceased, and I have to thank your Grace for this most useful
information.