Edwards to Elliot (Assistant Under-Secretary)

I am directed to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the
27th August, and of the parcel accompanying it. The latter
contained the Deed, dated 13 Jany, 12 Vict. 1849, granting
Vancouver's Island to the Hudson's Bay Company; and the Deed,
dated 3 April 1867, by which the Company reconveyed that Island
to the Crown.

These two Documents will be placed among the other Colonial
Records in this Office, and be subject to the same regulations.