British and American Joint Commission on the Hudson's Bay and Puget Sound Agricultural Companies' Claims
Subtitle: to the Honorable the commissioners : the Governor and Company of Adventurers of England trading into Hudson's Bay, commonly called the Hudson's Bay Company, claimants, submit the following memorial and statement of their claims upon the United States
Contributors: British and American Joint Commission for the Final Settlement of the Claims of the Hudson's Bay and Puget's Sound Agricultural Companies
Publisher: [s.n.]
Published: 1865
Place of publication: Montréal?
Language: eng
Number of pages: 11
Subjects: Claims vs. the United States; Réclamations contre les États-Unis; Hudson's Bay Company; Compagnie de la Baie d'Hudson
Notes: Caption title.

Dated: 8th April, 1865.

References: Casey I-3245; TPL 4386; Lowther, B.A bibliography of British Columbia : laying the foundations, 1849-1899, no. 245.

"The Commissioners (Sir John Rose for Great Britain, Alexander S. Johnson for the U.S., and Benjamin R. Curtis) were appointed by a treaty signed at Washington July 1, 1863, to adjudge the value of properties in Oregon owned and controlled by the Hudson's Bay co. The Company had been confirmed in its property rights in territory awarded to the United States by the treaty of Oregon in 1846, and after several years' difficult administration of these lands, agreed in 1863 to cede them to the United States at a price decided by the Commission. This work is the Company's statement of its own valuation of its properties. The Commission made its award in 1869"--TPL