<persName ref="prs:murdoch_twc"><surname>Murdoch</surname>, <forename>Thomas</forename> <forename>William</forename> <forename>Clinton</forename></persName> to <persName ref="prs:rogers_f"><surname>Rogers</surname>, <forename>Frederic</forename></persName> 12 February 1868, CO 60:34, no. 1469, 164. Murdoch addressee Rogers (Permanent Under-Secretary)

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Murdoch, Thomas William Clinton to Rogers, Frederic 12 February 1868, CO 60:34, no. 1469, 164.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/B685LN02.html. CO 60:34 CO 60 34 1469 164 B.C. 1868 received 12 February co_60_34_00166r.jpg Transcribed from microfilm archives, marked up in Waterloo Script, then transformed into TEI P5 XML.

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Public Offices document. Minutes (6), Other documents (1).

Murdoch summarizes British Columbia’s attorney general’s reasons for wanting the deed to Vancouver Island to be maintained in British Columbia and Murdoch accedes that the deed should be kept in British Columbia. However, Murdoch asks for an official copy to be maintained in Britain. Minutes by Cox, Rogers, and Buckingham discuss where the deed to Vancouver Island should be maintained. Rogers’s additional minute explains why the deed to Vancouver Island should be maintained in British Columbia.

Murdoch, Thomas William Clinton
Emigration Board
Rogers, Frederic Added summary of draft reply. Added abstract. Inserted revisionDesc.
Murdoch to Rogers (Permanent Under-Secretary) 1469, CO 60/34, p. 164; received 12 February
Emigration Board
12th February 1868 Sir,

I have to acknowledge your letter of 8th inst, enclosing the copy of a despatch from the Governor of British Columbia, requesting that the Deed by which the Hudsons Bay Company reconveyed Vancouver Island to the Crown might be retained in the Colony.

2. The Colonial Attorney General explains that it may be necessary to produce the original Deed in the Courts of Law in certain actions of ejectment in which the title of the Crown to the lands is likely to be called in question.

3. Under these circumstances, and as the Colonial Archives would seem to be the natural and proper custody of the document, I see no objection to the Governor's request being acceded to. But it would be convenient that he should furnish a copy of the instrument, certified in the most formal manner, for reference in this Country.

I have the honor to be, Sir, Your obedient Humble Servant T.W.C. Murdoch
Sir F. Rogers CC 14/2
I agree. FR 14/2 CBA 14/2
I perceive it was executed in duplicate & 1 copy received here. How is this. B&C 17/2
Mr Murdoch informs me that the Reconveyance was executed in duplicate, but that the Duplicate was retained by the CyCompany & that only one therefore belonged to the Crown. CC 18/2 FR 19/2
I shdshould think the one copy shdshould be retained in England & one attested copy in the Colony. B&C 21/2
Draft reply, Buckingham to Seymour, No. 16, 2 March 1868 advising Seymour that the original deed to Vancouver Island should be maintained in Britain and an “attested” copy in British Columbia.
Duke of Buckingham I cannot help submitting that this Deed will be more naturally kept in B.C. than in England. The GovtGovernment there have an interest in it, since it is the root of all future Title to VCI. The GovtGovernment here have none. Questions arising out of it will have to be fought out in all probability in B.C., not here. And if it is kept here it is likely to be forgotten or mislaid, since there is no natural place for its custody—it mt be kept in this office, the Emign Office, the Record Office, or elsewhere, & in fifty years it will be forgotten what plan of custody had been chosen. In B.C. I take it for granted it wdwould be impossible to mislay or forget it.

I add a sentence to the dph—in case Y.G. shdshould adhere to the opinion that it shdshould be sent to England.

FR