Murdoch to Rogers (Permanent Under-Secretary)

I have to acknowledge your letter of 8th inst, enclosing the
copy of a despatch from the Governor of British Columbia,
requesting that the Deed by which the Hudsons Bay Company
reconveyed Vancouver Island to the Crown might be retained in
the Colony.

2. The Colonial Attorney General explains that it may be
necessary to produce the original Deed in the Courts of Law
in certain actions of ejectment in which the title of the Crown
to the lands is likely to be called in question.

3. Under these circumstances, and as the Colonial Archives
would seem to be the natural and proper custody of the document,
I see no objection to the Governor's request being acceded to.
But it would be convenient that he should furnish a copy of the
instrument, certified in the most formal manner, for reference
in this Country.