No. 18, Miscellaneous

Many questions have lately arisen on account of the claims
of the Hudson Bay Company to the lands contiguous to their
Forts on the lower parts of Fraser River, and difficulties
are now felt

in consequence of those claims not being determined,
in fact the progress of settlement in some of the Towns, is
retarded from this cause; I would therefore very respectfully
submit the matter to your Grace, and with reference to my
Despatch of the 31st May 1859 No. 161, and more particularly
with regard to the last paragraph, would request Your Grace to
favor me

with such instructions, that I may be enabled definitely
to settle the boundaries of the Company's claim at Langley, Hope,
and Yale, and thus fix the exact limits of those Towns.