<persName ref="prs:dundas_f"><surname>Dundas</surname>, <forename>Frederick</forename></persName> to <persName ref="prs:rogers_f"><surname>Rogers</surname>, <forename>Frederic</forename></persName> 12 May 1868, CO 60:34, no. 4970, 476. Dundas addressee Rogers (Permanent Under-Secretary)

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Dundas, Frederick to Rogers, Frederic 12 May 1868, CO 60:34, no. 4970, 476.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/B686D02.html. CO 60:34 CO 60 34 4970 476 B.C. 1868 received 13 May co_60_34_00478r.jpg Transcribed from microfilm archives, marked up in Waterloo Script, then transformed into TEI P5 XML.

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Correspondence (private letter). Minutes (2), Enclosures (untranscribed) (4), Other documents (2).

Dundas forwards additional Papers in reference to the Application for a Grant of Land at Victoria, for Church Purposes by Members of the Church of Scotland in British Columbia for Buckingham. Cox’s minute relates that the additional papers discuss why the Church of Scotland should receive a land grant on Vancouver Island, similar to the Church of England. Rogers minutes instructions regarding how to reply to Dundas and the Church of Scotland, relating why the government was obligated to grant land to the Church of England but is not obligated to grant land to the Church of Scotland. Included documents describe the grant of land to the Church of England on Vancouver Island and discuss the proposition for a grant of land to the Church of Scotland.

Dundas, Frederick
24, Hanover Square
Rogers, Frederic Added summary of draft reply. Added abstract. Inserted revisionDesc.
Dundas to Rogers (Permanent Under-Secretary) 4970, CO 60/34, p. 476; received 13 May
24, Hanover Square
12th May 1868 Sir

I beg to forward for the further Consideration of the Duke of Buckingham, additional Papers in reference to the Application for a Grant of Land at Victoria, for Church Purposes by Members of the Church of Scotland in that Colony.

You will oblige me by bringing the Subject under his Grace's notice at an early date.

I am Sir Yours very truly Fredk Dundas Sir F.L. Rogers Bart &c &c &c Colonial Office
Sir F. Rogers See minutes on Land Bd 10805—on the claim of the Church of Scotland to a grant of Land in Vancouvers Island to put them on an equality with the Church of England who had recdreceived one.

In reply they were informed the latter was made by the Hudson's Bay Company, & that the Crown did not make such Grants.

They now reply that the Grant was made after the 3rd Feb 1862 when the Crown resumed the Lands of the Company, including that part subsequently granted to the Ch. of E. & that that Grant tho' made in 1864 by the Company was made on the part of the Crown—but it would appear that the Grant was merely to complete an agreement made by the Company before 1862 to give this Land.

CC 13 May
Answer to the above effect, viz that the Hudson B.C. before V.C.I. was resumed by the Crown had come or was considered to have come under an obligation to grant certain lands to the Church of E.—and that the Crown permitted or directed the Compy to fulfil their obligation just as it wdwould have permitted or directed the Company to fulfil any other obligation, binding on its lands, to any other person or body of persons—that if no such obligation had existed in favour of the Ch. of E, the Crown would not have sanctioned such a grant of land to the Ch of E, and as no such obligation exists in favour of the Ch of Scotland HG does not consider the Crown at liberty to direct such a grant to be made to the Church of Scotland. FR 14/5 CBA 16/5 B&C 20/5
R. Wallace, Chairman, St. Andrew's Church, to Dundas, arguing that the Church of Scotland should receive a grant of land equal to the one made by the Hudson's Bay Company to the Church of England, since that grant had been made at the direction of the Crown.
W.A.G. Young, Colonial Secretary, to [?], 15 July 1862, forwarding sketch maps relating to the reconveyance of Hudson's Bay Company lands to the Crown.
Copy of deed dated 3 February 1868 "in respect of Certain Lands & Premises in Victoria District assigned by The Hudsons Bay CoyCompany to Her Majesty the Queen and confirming Sales by said Compy previous to Jany lst A.D. 1862."
Copy of deed dated 6 May 1864 conveying grant of land to Church of England from Hudson's Bay Company.
Adderley to Dundas, 27 May 1868, explaining why the Crown would not grant land to the Church of Scotland.
Draft reply, Buckingham to Seymour, No. 31, 27 May 1868 transmitting correspondence between Dundas and the Colonial Office regarding the Church of Scotland’s application for a grant of land in British Columbia.