<persName ref="prs:berens_hh"><surname>Berens</surname>, <forename>Henry</forename> <forename>Hulse</forename></persName> to <persName ref="prs:newcastle"><surname>Pelham-Clinton</surname>, <forename>Henry</forename> <forename>Pelham</forename> <forename>Fiennes</forename></persName> 20 April 1860, CO 305:15, no. 4060, 417. Berens addressee Newcastle

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Berens, Henry Hulse to Pelham-Clinton, Henry Pelham Fiennes 20 April 1860, CO 305:15, no. 4060, 417.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/V605MI08.html. CO 305:15 CO 305 15 4060 417 V.I. 1860 received 21 April co_305_15_00418r.jpg Transcribed from microfilm archives, marked up in Waterloo Script, then transformed into TEI P5 XML.

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Public Offices document. Minutes (2), Enclosures (untranscribed) (1), Other documents (1).

 Berens, Henry Hulse
Hudson's Bay House London
Pelham-Clinton, Henry Pelham Fiennes Inserted revisionDesc.
Berens to Newcastle 4060, CO 305/15, p. 417; received 21 April
Hudson's Bay House London
20 April 1860

I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of Mr Under-Secretary Merivale's letter of the 23rd ultimo, intimating that your Grace was advised that the best course to be taken with a view to bringing the pending questions before the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council would be, that this Company should present petitions to Her Majesty stating their grounds of claim, and praying specifically for the relief to which they consider themselves entitled.

I now beg to transmit, herewith, to Your Grace, the statement of the grounds upon which this Company rest theirtheir claim to the Lands in Vancouver's Island which were in their possession before the Grant made to them of that Colony; and no time will be lost in the preparation and presentation of the Petitions in connection with these claims.

I have etc. H.H. Berens GovrGovernor
Mr Elliot I assume that as soon as the petitions in question have reached the Office of the Jud. Committee of the Privy Council a communication will be addressed to this DtDepartment calling for information, & enquiring what proceedings H.M. GovtGovernment propose to take in the matter. ABd 21 Apl
Acknowledge? and request to be informed, as soon as the petition is deposited. This will require to be watched as the Company seem to me to shift their ground a little in the end of the statement. HM Apl 25
Draft, Fortescue to Berens, 5 May 1860, asking to be informed as soon as the petition to the Queen was deposited with the judicial committee.
Statement by the Hudson's Bay Company of the grounds on which they based their claim to the lands in Vancouver Island that were in their possession before the grant (50 pages, including copies and extracts of pertinent documents and correspondence dating from 1846).