No. 6, Miscellaneous

Feeling assured that any enterprise exercising an influence in
Extending Settlement and developing the resources of Vancouvers
Island will possess an interest with Your Grace, I venture to transmit
a correspondence with Mr Edward Stamp acting for himself and for
persons in England with whom he is connected regarding a plan for
establishing a powerful saw mill capable of delivering 50,000 feet of
lumber daily; a fishing and fish-curing establishment; a patent slip
capable of accommodating vessels up to 2000 tons burthen, and other
projects which will no doubt result in the formation of a large
Settlement on the West Coast of Vancouvers Island: the chief object
of the association being to export timber in large quantities to
China, Australia, the Sandwich Islands, South America, and other
countries on the Pacific.

2. The many attractive inducements for Settlers and for the
investment of capital created by the Laws of the United States, had
at one time, nearly made Captain Stamp decide on carrying out his
scheme in Washington Territory; but he has now happily abandoned that
intention in consequence of the tenor of the Communications which I
deemed it proper to address to him in reply to his application for
assistance.

3. His demands (one excepted) were fortunately reasonable, and such
as could be granted without difficulty; being

1st The right of selecting a Site for the purpose of forming
the proposed establishment.

2nd of acquiring as much land as might be wanted in the
vicinity of the saw mill, and the price which he would be required to
pay for the land.

3rd An
exclusive license for cutting timber on Crown Land near the Saw
Mill.

4th That the Establishment should be declared a Port of
Entry.

4. As no part of the West Coast of Vancouver's Island, where the
proposed settlement is to be formed, is surveyed, it was agreed that
he should be at liberty to acquire any quantity of land in that part
of the Colony under 15,000 Acres, at a fixed price not in any case to
exceed £1 per acre, that being the highest price charged for Country
land, subject however, to a reduction should the price of country
land be lowered before the purchase is completed.

5. The exclusive license to cut timber on the lands of the Crown
near the Saw Mill, was not conceded; but I agreed to make the
settlement a Port of Entry, on condition of his being prepared to
account to the Treasury for the whole amount of Fees collected on
Shipping, without any deduction; and I prescribed as a final
condition, and a guarantee that there would be no failure in carrying
out the arrangement on his part, that he should place permanent
improvements upon the land to the Extent of Seven Thousand, Five
Hundred Pounds (£7500), within the Year 1860.

6. I trust this Enterprise may succeed, and that the arrangement
with Mr Stamp may meet with Your Grace's approval.