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• Title:Return to an address of the honorable legislative assembly, dated 16th March, 1857, requiring copies of any charters, leases, or other documents, under which the honorable Hudson's Bay Company claim title to the Hudson's Bay territory, or any maps relating thereto in the possession of the government.
  
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• Corporate Author/Creator:Canada. Crown Lands Department.
  
• Published/Created:Toronto : Printed by Stewart Derbishire & George Desbarats, 1857.
  

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  • Location:RARE BOOKS & SPECIAL COLLECTIONS Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: F5515.4 .C25:1
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Hudson's Bay Company.
  Eminent domain--Canada.
  Hudson Bay.
  
• Description:75 pages ; 25 cm.
  
• Summary:"This document includes a reprint of the Royal Charter of the H.B. Co. granted in 1670; the license granting the H.B. Co. exclusive trading rights with the Indians; and the grant t the H.B. Co. of Vancouver Island."--Patrick McGahern Books listing.
  
• Additional formats:Available also online.
  
• Notes:Slip inserted before t.p. regarding maps furnished with original manuscript of Return.
  Maps listed in schedule of appendixes were not included.
  
• Contents:Appendix A. Statement of the rights as to territory, trade, taxation and government claimed and exercised by the Hudson's Bay Company on the continent of North America and accompanying map
  Appendix B. Memorandum with maps numbered 1 and 2
  Appendix C. The royal charter incorporating the Hudson's Bay Company, 1670 [and ] Act confirming the charter during seven years from 1690
  Appendix D. License of exlusive trade in the Indian territories expiring in 1859 and Covenant of the Hudson's Bay Company thereunder
  Appendix E. Conditional grant of Vancouver's
  F. Canada Jurisdiction Act [etc.]