Arbuthnot to Rogers (Permanent Under-Secretary)

I am directed by the Lords Commissoners of Her Majesty's Treasury to
transmit to you a Report from Messrs Foster and Lewes—who have been
appointed to examine the Accounts of the Hudson's Bay Company—and I
am to request that you will lay the same before the Duke of Newcastle and move His Grace to inform My Lords whether in his opinion the sum of £25,000 may now be safely advanced to the Hudson's Bay Company "on
account" of their claims in respect of Vancouver Island. Their
Lordships wish to be informed whether the representation made to the
Writers of this Report to the effect that the proceeds of the Land
Sales during the 7 Months ending May 1859 have been paid by order of Governor Douglas to the Government chest in lieu of being remitted home by the Agent of the Company is correct.