Murdoch to Rogers (Permanent Under-Secretary)

I have to acknowledge your letter of 27th instant,
with one from the Governor of the Hudsons Bay Co calling
the attention of the Duke of Newcastle to the delay which
has occurred in the Colony in carrying into effect the
arrangement for the settlement of the Land claims of the
Company in British Columbia, made between this Office and
Mr Dallas on 11th Octr 1861.

2. We have no information which would enable us to suggest
any explanation of the delay—and I can only, therefore,
recommend that Governor Douglas' attention should be
called to it, and that he should be desired to carry the
above arrangement into practical effect, as quickly as
circumstances will allow.