<persName ref="prs:murdoch_twc"><surname>Murdoch</surname>, <forename>Thomas</forename> <forename>William</forename> <forename>Clinton</forename></persName> to <persName ref="prs:elliot_tf"><surname>Elliot</surname>, <forename>Thomas</forename> <forename>Frederick</forename></persName> 30 April 1862, CO 305:19, no. 4383, 398. Murdoch addressee Elliot (Assistant Under-Secretary)

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

Murdoch forwards Elliot a letter from Douglas in which Douglas suggests that some arrangement should be come to with the Hudson's Bay Co to allow of the sale of the Land claimed by them on the ground of occupation previous to 1849, pending the settlement of the questions respecting this claim in dispute between the Company and H.M. Government. Murdoch writes that the Agreement concluded with the Company on the 3rd of February last has resolved the issue.

Murdoch, Thomas William Clinton
Emigration Office
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Murdoch to Elliot (Assistant Under-Secretary) 4383, CO 305/19, p. 398; received 2 May
Emigration Office
30 April 1862

I have to acknowledge your letter of 24th instant, with one from the Governor of Vancouvers Island in which he suggests that some arrangement should be come to with the Hudson's Bay Co to allow of the sale of the Land claimed by them on the ground of occupation previous to 1849, pending the settlement of the questions respecting this claim in dispute between the Company and H.M. Government.

2. In reply I have to state that all questions regarding this Land have been set at rest by the Agreement concluded with the Company on the 3rd of February last which has no doubt been communicated to the Governor. That Agreement will have put it in the power of the Governor to dispose of all the Land in the Town of Victoria not previously disposed of to others, with the exception of some small reservations for the Company, and will therefore have exactly met the object proposed in his present despatch.

I have the honor to be Sir Your Obedient Humble Servant T.W.C. Murdoch
Mr Elliot Write to the Governor in this sense. ABd 2 May
Draft. TFE 2 May
Draft reply, Newcastle to Douglas, No. 98, 8 May 1862, informing Douglas that all questions regarding this land have been set at rest by the Agreement concluded with the Company.