Fraser to Rogers (Permanent Under-Secretary)

By the direction of the Governor and Committee of the
Hudson's Bay Company I have the honour herewith to transmit
for the information of the Earl of Carnarvon, copy of a
letter to me from William F. Tolmie Esquire one of the
Company's Agents at Victoria, Vancouver Island, together
with copy of a correspondence which has lately taken place
between the Honorable N. Birch administering the Government
of British Columbia and the Board of Management relative to the illicit
liquor traffic with Indians on the North West Coast of America.