Murdoch to Rogers (Permanent Under-Secretary)
24th April 1866
Sir
I have the honour to enclose a copy of a letter we have received from the Secretary of the Hudsons Bay Co requesting that they may be furnished with a copy of the Draft Deed of Reconveyance of Vancouver Island, in order that they may transmit it to the Board of Management of the Company in the Colony.
2. Should Mr Cardwell see no objection to this application I presume that we shall receiveManuscript image his sanction to supply the Company with a copy of the Draft as they request.
I have the honor to be,
Sir
Your obedient
Humble Servant
T.W.C. Murdoch
Minutes by CO staff
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Mr Elliot
Comply?
ABd 25 April
Sir F. Rogers
I suppose so.
TFE 25 April
At once.
FR 25/4
Documents enclosed with the main document (not transcribed)
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Copy, Thomas Fraser to S. Walcott, Emigration Board, 21 April 1866, asking that a copy of the draft reconveyance be forwarded for transmission to the board of management of the company at Victoria.
Other documents included in the file
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Elliot to Murdoch, 28 April 1866, advising the copy could be forwarded to the company as per their request.