<persName ref="prs:head_ew"><surname>Head</surname>, <forename>Edmund</forename> <forename>Walker</forename></persName> to <persName ref="prs:elliot_tf"><surname>Elliot</surname>, <forename>Thomas</forename> <forename>Frederick</forename></persName> 1 April 1865, CO 305:27, no. 3189, 267. Head addressee Elliot (Assistant Under-Secretary)

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Head, Edmund Walker to Elliot, Thomas Frederick 1 April 1865, CO 305:27, no. 3189, 267.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/V655MI03.html. CO 305:27 CO 305 27 3189 267 V.I. 1865 received 3 April co_305_27_00268r.jpg Transcribed from microfilm archives, marked up in Waterloo Script, then transformed into TEI P5 XML.

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Public Offices document. Minutes (4), Enclosures (untranscribed) (1), Other documents (1).

Head forwards a copy of a letter in which the HBC instructs its officers to comply with any requests for information regarding land sales in Vancouver Island. Head assures Elliot that Head’s office will also comply, but that he cannot see what information is sought for which is not already accessible to the Government in the Public Registry of the Colony.

 Head, Edmund Walker
Hudsons Bay House
Elliot, Thomas Frederick Inserted revisionDesc. Added abstract. Written by Josiah Snell.
Head to Elliot (Assistant Under-Secretary) 3189, CO 305/27, p. 267; received 3 April
Hudsons Bay House
April 1st 1865 Sir,

In reply to your letter of the 31st of March I have to request that you will inform Mr Cardwell that the letter of which a copy is enclosed will be sent to the Company's Officers at Victoria by the next Mail.

In the meantime if there is any information on the subject in this Office which is desired the Governor andCommittee Committee will be quite ready to furnish it.

It is difficult to see what information is sought for which is not already accessible to the Government in the Public Registry of the Colony.

I have the honor to be, Sir, Your most obedient Servant Edmund Head Governor
Not passed on owing to the absence of necessary papers.

The papers in question having returned to day I send this to Mr Murdoch together with others bearing on the subject of Land in V.C.I. as directed by Minute of 8 Apl.

ABd 10 Apl
Mr Elliot Mr Murdoch has seen this when writing the draft to Sir E. Head on the "Lowenburg" [Lowenberg] dispute.

I think that this Letter shdshould be ackd & that we shdshould send the GovrGovernor a copy of it, & of the C.O. letter to Sir Edmund of the 31st ulto.

ABd 13 Apl
Sir F. Rogers So proceed? TFE 13 April
I think so. FR 13/4 EC 14
Thomas Fraser to William Fraser Tolmie, 1 April 1865, instructing that any information in respect of land sales in Vancouver Island while under the administration of the Company "should be freely communicated to the Colonial Government if desired by them."
Draft reply, Cardwell to Kennedy, No. 22, 17 April 1865.