No. 28

With reference to the last Paragraph of my Despatch of the 28 March
No 17, I have the honor to transmit herewith to your Grace Copy of a
letter which I have received from the Agent at this place of the
Hudson's Bay Company, exhibiting the quantity of land claimed by the
Company under a Title anterior to the Charter of Grant, and also the
quantity acquired by purchase in their private capacity.

2. The quantity of land purchased by the Company at Nanaimo alluded
to by Mr Dallas in the Postscript of his letter, amounts to Six
Thousand One Hundred and Ninety three Acres: excluding Reserves made
on the tract for Public purposes and for Indians of One thousand and
Seventy four Acres.