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Berens, Henry Hulse to Lytton, Sir Edward George Earle Bulwer 22 February 1859, CO 60:6, no. 2072, 21.

Abstract
Public Offices document. Minutes (2).
Berens acknowledges receipt of Douglas’s “Revocation” of the HBC’s exclusive trading licence with First Nations of British Columbia.
The minutes “Put by.”
Berens to Lytton
Hudson's Bay House
London
22 February 1859
Sir,
I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of the Earl of Carnarvon's letter dated the 15th instant, in which his Lordship, by your directions, informed me that a Despatch has been received from Governor Douglas stating that on the 3rd November last, he had proclaimed the Revocation of the License of the 30th May 1838 to the Hudson's Bay Company of exclusive trade with the Indians so far as the same embraced the Territories comprised in British Columbia.
H.H. Berens
Govr
Minutes by CO staff
Manuscript image
Put by.
ABd 24 Feb
At once.
HM F 24
Berens, Henry Hulse to Lytton, Sir Edward George Earle Bulwer 22 February 1859, CO 60:6, no. 2072, 21. The Colonial Despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871, Edition 2.0, ed. James Hendrickson and the Colonial Despatches project. Victoria, B.C.: University of Victoria. https://bcgenesis.uvic.ca/B595MI06.html.

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