Colonial Despatches
The colonial despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871
Public Offices document
Pelly, Sir John Henry
to
Grey, Right Honorable, Second Baronet, Sir George
12 June 1851, CO 305:3, no. 5120, 373.
Abstract
Public Offices document.
Minutes (5), Enclosures (transcribed) (1), Other documents (1), Marginalia (2).
Pelly writes to Grey to confirm the receipt of a despatch from Blanshard, and to forward, on behalf the HBC, one of the required biennial reports.
I have received Mr Under Secretary Hawes's letter of the 15th Ulto transmitting for the information of the Hudsons Bay Company the Copy of a Dispatch
from the Governor of Vancouver's Island, dated
Feby 3rd 1851, and requesting that I will furnish your Lordship with the Report referred to by Governor Blanshard,
which by the terms of the Royal Charter the Company are required to make once in every
two years at least.
Copy of Report [...] in No 2 of 19 Sept/51
In compliance with your Lordship's request I beg to hand you the accompanying Report.
Minutes by CO staff
ABd
13/6.
This is not a "certificate under hand & seal" which the Co. are
required by their Cha grant to give, nor does it in point of form very well
fulfil the requisites of the grant, though substantially it may. I think Sir J. Pelly when next he calls here had better be spoken to on this subject?
Documents enclosed with the main document (transcribed)
I have the honour to report to your Lordship that the Hudsons
Bay Company have made the following Sales of land in Vancouver's
Island at the price of One Pound per Acre vizt
One hundred Acres to H.G. Grant.
Three hundred & Twenty doJames Douglas
One hundred do „ John Tod
Three hundred do „ J.M. Yale
Two hundred do „ James Cooper
One hundred do „ Rodk Finlayson
Seventy do „ James Nesbit
Twenty do „ Elisha Chancellor
Two hundred do „ W. McNeill
Lands have been reserved for the Fur Trade Branch of the Hudsons Bay Company near
Fort Victoria, and for the Puget's Sound
Agricultural
Agricultural Company at Esquimalt Harbour, but as these lands have not yet been surveyed the number of Acres which they contain
cannot be stated. Surveyors have been sent out who will ascertain the
exact quantities of these Reserves and in order to obviate any inconvenience that might in the meantime arise from the want of funds for Colonial purposes the Company's Agent was directed
about
six months ago to pay over to the Governor of the Colony from time
to time as it may be required, the sum of Four Thousand Pounds.
Agricultural Company at Esquimalt Harbour, but as these lands have not yet been surveyed the number of Acres which they contain
cannot be stated. Surveyors have been sent out who will ascertain the
exact quantities of these Reserves and in order to obviate any inconvenience that might in the meantime arise from the want of funds for Colonial purposes the Company's Agent was directed
about
six months ago to pay over to the Governor of the Colony from time
to time as it may be required, the sum of Four Thousand Pounds.I beg to add that the Puget Sound Agricultural Company sent
out two Bailiffs and seventy four labourers in November last and
twenty labourers last month for the purpose of cultivating their land
Other documents included in the file
Minutes by CO staff
Mr Elliot.
We have no record of Mr Merivale's Note to which this is an answer, but I presume that the enclosed Report is the one referred to by Sir J.Pelly.
We have no record of Mr Merivale's Note to which this is an answer, but I presume that the enclosed Report is the one referred to by Sir J.Pelly.
9 Sep
VJ
Footnotes
- Please note that the following enclosure also appears transcribed in this record.
- This addressee information appears at the foot of the first page of the despatch.
- The following marginalia is thought to be a minute entry by Jadis. This text runs perpendicular to main body text; see image scan.