<persName ref="prs:grant_wc"><surname>Grant</surname>, <forename>Walter</forename> <forename>Colquhoun</forename></persName> to <persName ref="prs:hawes_b"><surname>Hawes</surname>, <forename>Benjamin</forename></persName> 8 November 1848, CO 305:1, no. 2091, 547. Grant addressee Under-Secretary of State

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Grant, Walter Colquhoun to Hawes, Benjamin 8 November 1848, CO 305:1, no. 2091, 547.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/V486G01.html. CO 305:01 CO 305 1 2091 547 V.I. 1848 received 8 November co_305_01_00267r.jpg Transcribed from microfilm archives, marked up in Waterloo Script, then transformed into TEI P5 XML.

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

Grant writes Grey to confirm that Grant's various and recent investments, both monetary and labour, are valid in light of Pelly and the HBC's level of granted power in the colony of Vancouver Island.

In the minutes, Merivale reiterates to Hawes the HBC's legal position, and breadth and structure of power, in the colony.

One enclosure is a letter of acknowledgement from Hawes to Grant, and the other is Hawes to Grant again, this time advising that the HBC grant is near completion.

 Grant, Walter Colquhoun
Junr United Service Club
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2091, CO 305/1, p. 547; received 8 November
Junr United Service Club
Novr 8. 2091 — Vancouver's Island Sir

Permit me to apologize for the liberty which I as a stranger take in addressing you; Having however in pursuance of an in=tentionintention to emigrate to Vancou=ver'sVancouver's Island, agreed to purchase a certain quantity of land from the Hudson's Bay CoyCompany, & having engaged labourers at the rate of 6 for every hundred acres purchased, who are to be sent out in a vessel chartered by the Hudson's Bay CoyCompany on the 30th instant, I shall feel much obliged if you will be kind enough to inform me whether the island is so far made over to the Hudson's Bay CoyCompany as to justify my purchasing land from them, & being at the expence (for I am to be at the sole expence) of sending out emigrants to cultivate that land. The price paid for land is £1 pr acre, nine tenths of which Sir J. Pelly informed me wdwould be spent on the colony for its benefit, he further fixed a charge of 2/6 pr ton on such coal as shdshould be exported by Colonists, also a charge of 10/ pr load on whatever Wood shdshould be exported, allowing colonists the use of whatever wood they re=quiredrequired for domestic purposes.

He further gave me the appoint=mentappointment of Surveyor of the island, lea=vingleaving salary amts of surveys to be made &c. to be fixed on arrival in the island. Sir J. Pelly also informed me that the island sd at present be governed by a governor & ten councillors, one of which councillors, he gave me to understand he had appoint=edappointed me, as also a magistrate, justice of the peace &c. May I take the liberty of enquiring from you as under Secretary for the Colonies, whether it is in the powers of the Governor of the Hudson's Bay Compy to make all these appointments, conditions &c, concerning the sale of land in Vancouver's island, & whether I as a private indi=vidualindividual anxious to go out to that part of the world, should apply myself to the Hudson's Bay CoyCompany or to Her Majesty's Government.

I have the honor to be Sir Yr most obedt Servt W. Colqn Grant
Copy, Hawes to Grant, 8 November 1848, acknowledging his letter and saying that an official answer would follow.
Mr Hawes I am inclined to think this gentleman might be answered by shortly explaining the actual state of the case, viz. that the land is actually granted to the HBC and Sir J. Pelly they have consequently power to make grants: That their recommendations of persons to fill situations of trust in the colony would merit every attention on the part of GovtGovernment although they have not the direct power of making such appointments: That the H.B.C. have suggested instructions to the be given to the Governor which have not as yet been fully considered & approved in this office, but that although the negociations between the Company & Government cannot, on that account, be said to be wholly at an end, yet Ld Grey has you has no Lord Grey has no do reason to doubt that the colonization of the island will proceed under the Company's auspices? HM N 9
N. 9. At all events parties thus obtaining land wdwould have their rights respected by the GovtGovernment even if all negotiations failed between the CyCompany & this Depart BH G. 10/
Draft, Hawes to Grant, 15 November 1848, advising that the grant of Vancouver Island to the Hudson's Bay Company was all but formally completed.
Mr Merivale. Can the land be said to have been actually granted to the Company as the Letters Patents have not yet passed the Council? VJ
I think Mr Jadis is right & have altered accordingly. HM
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This faint text runs perpendicular to and through main body text; see image scan.Ansd 15 Nvo / 48.