Kimberley to Elliot (Assistant Under-Secretary)

The Governor and Committee of the Hudson's Bay Company have
recently received a copy of a Memorial addressed to the
Secretary of State for the Colonies, praying that His Grace will
move Lord Stanley to instruct Her Majesty's Minister at
Washington in the negotiations for the renewal of the Treaty for
reciprocity of trade between Canada and the United States to
endeavour to secure the extension of its provisions to British
Columbia.

The Committee desire me to express their general concurrence in
the prayer of the Memorialists and to add that in their opinion
an equitable readjustment of duties as between the United States
and British Columbia would tend greatly to promote the trade of
that Colony in which the Company are largely interested.