I have to acknowledge the receipt of Mr Under Secretary Hawes's
letter of the 4th Inst transmitting to me for any observations which
the Hudsons Bay Company may have to offer, extracts from a Dispatch from
the Governor of Vancouvers' Island on the subject of the goods paid to the Indians to extinguish their titles to land.
In reply to which I beg to state to your Lordship that, as Mr
Blanshard has resigned the Office of Governor of Vancouver's Island, the
Hudsons Bay Company do not consider it necessary to make any remarks on
the Extracts referred to, nor indeed do they think it fully within the
province of the Governor to inquire into the transactions between the
Company and the Natives with respect to the extinction of the Titles of
the latter to their lands.