<persName ref="prs:lewis"><surname>Lewis</surname>, <forename>George</forename> <forename>C.</forename></persName> to <persName ref="prs:douglas_j"><surname>Douglas</surname>, <forename>James</forename></persName> 24 August 1860, LAC RG7:G8C/9, 296. Lewis addressee Douglas

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Lewis, George C. to Douglas, James 24 August 1860, LAC RG7:G8C/9, 296.The Colonial Despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871, Edition 2.6, ed. James Hendrickson and the Colonial Despatches project. Victoria, B.C.: University of Victoria. https://bcgenesis.uvic.ca/B607048.html. LAC RG7:G8C/9 LAC RG7 G8C/9 296 48 B.C. 1860 rg7_g8c_09_00190r.jpg Transcribed from microfilm archives, marked up in Waterloo Script, then transformed into TEI P5 XML.

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Despatch from London.

Lewis, George C.
Downing Street,
Douglas, James Inserted revisionDesc with @status="unproofed".
No. 48 LAC, RG7, G8C/9, p. 296 (CO 398/1, p. 427)
Downing Street,
24 August 1860 Sir,

I have to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch No 56 of the 21st June enclosing a correspondence with the Hudsons Bay Company's Agent at Fort Victoria on the subject of the claims of the Company to lands adjacent to their Forts in British Columbia.

These claims have been referred by mutual consent, to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, and until the decision of that Tribunal is obtained no effectual remedy for the inconvenience which you represent can be applied. But it would be desirable in the meantime that you should abstain as much as possible from dealing with land claimed by the Company so as to avoid increasing their claim to compensation should their title to the land be eventually affirmed.

I have the honor to be Sir, Your most obedient humble Servant G.C. Lewis