Hudson's Bay Company
Subtitle: papers presented by Command of Her Majesty to the House of Commons, in pursuance of an address praying that Her Majesty would be graciously pleased to direct that such means as to Her Majesty shall seem most fitting and effectual, to be taken to ascertain the legality of the powers in respect to territory, trade, taxation and government, which are, or recently have been, claimed or exercised by the Hudson's Bay Company, on the continent of North America, under the charter of his Majesty King Charles the Second, issued in the year 1670, or in virtue of any other right or title, except those conveyed by or under the Act 43 Geo. 3, c. 138 (extending the criminal jurisdiction of Canadian courts), and 1 & 2 Geo. 4, c. 66, intituled, "An act for regulating the fur trade, and establishing a criminal  and civil jurisdiction within certain parts of North America"
By: Colonial Office, Downing-street, 11 July 1850, B. Hawes
Contributors: Hawes, B., compiler; Great Britain. Colonial Office
Series: Indigenous Peoples: North America; Indigenous Peoples: North America
Publisher: [publisher not identified]
Published: 1850
Place of publication: Place of publication not identified]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 15
Subjects: Sources; History; Fur trade; Hudson's Bay Company
Other titles: Papers relating to the legality of the powers in respect to territory, trade, taxation and government claimed or exercised by the Hudson's Bay Company
Notes: "542."

"Papers relating to the legality of the powers in respect to territory, trade, taxation and government claimed or exercised by the Hudson's Bay Company, on the continent of North America, under the charter of Charles the Second, or in virtue or any other right or title"--Colophon.

Reproduction of the original from the Bruce Peel Special Collections Library, University of Alberta.