<persName ref="prs:pelly_jh"><surname>Pelly</surname>, <forename>John</forename> <forename>Henry</forename> </persName> to <persName ref="prs:grey_g"><surname>Grey</surname>, <forename>George</forename></persName> 12 June 1851, CO 305:3, no. 5120, 373. Pelly addressee Grey

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Pelly, John Henry to Grey, George 12 June 1851, CO 305:3, no. 5120, 373.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/V515HB07.html. CO 305:03 CO 305 3 5120 373 V.I. 1851 registered 13 June co_305_03_00380r.jpg Transcribed from microfilm archives, marked up in Waterloo Script, then transformed into TEI P5 XML.

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Public Offices document. Minutes (5), Enclosures (transcribed) (1), Other documents (1), Marginalia (2).

Pelly writes to Grey to confirm the receipt of a despatch from Blanshard, and to forward, on behalf the HBC, one of the required biennial reports.

In the minutes, Merivale comments on the insubstantial and inadequate nature of the report, and suggests that Pelly be informed on this front.

Included in the file is a report, fully transcribed, from Pelly to Grey, on land sales on Vancouver Island; the report lists the names of purchasers. The final document in the file is a letter from Pelly to Merivale, which acknowledges Merivale's Note of Saturday.

 Pelly, John Henry
Hudsons Bay House Hudson's Bay House
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5120, CO 305/3, p. 373; registered 13 June 5120 Vancouvers Island
Hudsons Bay House
June 12th 1851 My Lord,

I have received Mr Under Secretary Hawes's letter of the 15th Ulto transmitting for the information of the Hudsons Bay Company the Copy of a Dispatch from the Governor of Vancouver's Island, dated Feby 3rd 1851, and requesting that I will ⎯ furnish your Lordship with the Report referred to by Governor Blanshard, which by the terms of the Royal Charter the Company are required to make once in every two years at least.

In compliance with your Lordship's request I beg to hand you the accompanying Report.

I have the honour to be My Lord Your Lordship's most obedt humble Servant JH Pelly The RtRight HonbleHonourable The Earl Grey&c &c &c
Mr Merivale Copy of the enclosure 5121 to the Governor of VanCouver's Island for information. ABd 13/6.
This is not a "certificate under hand & seal" which the Co. are required by their Cha grant to give, nor does it in point of form very well fulfil the requisites of the grant, though substantially it may. I think Sir J. Pelly when next he calls here had better be spoken to on this subject? HM June 16. J 17 BH G. 18
I have written privately to Sir J. Pelly. Put by at present. HM S. 6.
Please note that the following enclosure also appears transcribed in this record.
Hudson's Bay House
June 12th 1851 My Lord,

I have the honour to report to your Lordship that the Hudsons Bay Company have made the following Sales of land in Vancouver's Island at the price of One Pound per Acre vizt

One hundred Acres to H.G. Grant.

Three hundred & Twenty doJames Douglas

One hundred      do „ John Tod

Three hundred      do „ J.M. Yale

Two hundred      do „ James Cooper

One hundred      do „ Rodk Finlayson

Seventy      do „ James Nesbit

Twenty      do „ Elisha Chancellor

Two hundred      do „ W. McNeill

Lands have been reserved for the Fur Trade Branch of the Hudsons Bay Company near Fort Victoria, and for the Puget's Sound AgriculturalAgricultural Company at Esquimalt Harbour, but as these lands have not yet been surveyed the number of Acres which they contain cannot be stated. Surveyors have been sent out who will ascertain the exact quantities of these Reserves and in order to obviate any ⎯ inconvenience that might in the mean--timemeantime arise from the want of funds for Colonial purposes the Company's Agent was directed about six months ago to pay over to the Governor of the Colony from time to time as it may be required, the sum of Four Thousand Pounds.

I beg to add that the Puget Sound Agricultural Company sent out two Bailiffs and seventy four labourers in November last and twenty labourers last month for the purpose of cultivating their land

I have the honour to be My Lord Your Lordships most obtobedient humble Servant JH Pelly This addressee information appears at the foot of the first page of the despatch.The RtRight HonbleHonourable The Earl Grey&c &c &c
Pelly to Merivale, 8 September 1851, acknowledging Merivale's "Note of Saturday" and stating that if he "will send the report you allude to to the Hudson's Bay House betwixt 2 & 3 oclock on Wednesday I shall have the Seal affixed & returned."
Mr Jadis. Perhaps you may know what this alludes to? T.F.E. 9 Sep.
Mr Elliot. We have no record of Mr Merivale's Note to which this is an answer, but I presume that the enclosed Report is the one referred to by Sir J.Pelly. 9 Sep VJ
The following marginalia is thought to be a minute entry by Jadis. This text runs perpendicular to main body text; see image scan. Encs returned to Hudson's Bay Company in a note from Mr Elliot requesting the Seal of the Company may be affixed to it. 11 Sept/51
Copy of Report […] in No 2 of 19 Sept/51