<persName ref="prs:grenville_r"><surname>Grenville</surname>, <forename>Richard</forename></persName> to <persName ref="prs:seymour_f"><surname>Seymour</surname>, <forename>Frederick</forename></persName> 2 March 1868, NAC RG7:G8C/15, 64. Buckingham & Chandos addressee Seymour

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Grenville, Richard to Seymour, Frederick 2 March 1868, NAC RG7:G8C/15, 64.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/B687016.html. NAC RG7:G8C/15 NAC RG7 G8C/15 64 16 B.C. 1868 rg7_g8c_15_00037r.jpg Transcribed from microfilm archives, marked up in Waterloo Script, then transformed into TEI P5 XML.

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Despatch from London.

Buckingham discusses where the original deed of Vancouver Island should be maintained and advises Seymour to pass an act that verifies the authority of a copy of the deed of Vancouver Island.

Grenville, Richard Seymour, Frederick Added abstract. Inserted revisionDesc with @status="unproofed".
No. 16 NAC, RG7, G8C/15, p. 64 (CO 398/5, p. 117) 2 March 1868 Sir,

I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your Despatch No. 156 of the 30th November enclosing a letter from the Attorney General of British Columbia in which he urges the necessity of retaining in the Colony the Deed by which the Hudsons Bay Company reconveyed Vancouvers Island to the Crown.

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I am of opinion that it would be advisable that the original Deed should be retained in the Record Office in this Country and that an attested Copy should be kept in the Colonial Archives.

An Act can be passed, if your Law Officers think it necessary, declaring that the attested Copy shall be conclusive evidence of the contents of the Deed in any Action at Law or Equity.

I have the honor to be Sir, Your most obedient humble Servant Buckingham & Chandos