Hamilton to Elliot (Assistant Under-Secretary)

In reply to your letter of the 26th September, I am directed by the
Lords Commissoners of Her Majesty's Treasury to acquaint you, for the
information of the Duke of Newcastle, that instructions have been
given to the Paymaster General to pay to the Governor of the Hudson's
Bay Company the sum of £32,500, in full discharge of all claims of
the Company against Her Majesty's Government in respect of the
Resumption of Vancouver's Island by the Crown, and I am to request
tht you will move His Grace to communicate to the Governor of the
Hudson's Bay Company the directions given to the Paymaster General.