Head to Rogers (Permanent Under-Secretary)

The Committee of the Hudson's Bay Company have reason
to think that the arrangement respecting the lands of the
Company in British Columbia, laid down in the Memorandum
signed on the 11th of Octr 1861, by Mr Walcott and Mr
Dallas and sanctioned by the letters of His Grace the Duke
Newcastle and Mr Berens of November 2nd and November
7th (respectively) in the same year, have not yet been
carried into effect with the promptitude on the part of the
Colonial Government which His Grace intended.

I have therefore to request that instructions may be
given to the Officer administering the Government of British
Columbia to cause without delay grants to be made of such
lands as the Company is entitled to retain under the above Agreement.

The Clause of the Memorandum providing for Arbitration
affords a ready mode of settling any disputes as to fact
which may arise and the provision for compensation where the
lands in the immediate vicinity of the Forts or Posts may
have been granted previous to the Agreement, would seem
sufficient to secure to the Company their full rights.

The Committee feel confident that His Grace will be
as anxious now, as he was in 1861, for the fair and
equitable settlement of their outstanding claims.