Report of Delegates Appointed to Negotiate for the Acquisition of Rupert's Land and the North-West Territory: Laid Before Parliament by Command of His Excellency the Governor General

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Seite 2 - It shall be lawful for the Queen, by and with the advice of Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, to declare by proclamation that on and after a day...
Seite 37 - Company, but so that the aggregate extent of the blocks is not to exceed 50,000 acres. 4. So far as the configuration of the country admits, the blocks shall front the river or road by which means of access are provided, and shall be approximately in the shape of parallelograms, of which the frontage shall not be more than half the depth.
Seite 3 - ... privileges, liberties, franchises, powers, and authorities whatsoever granted or purported to be granted by the said letters patent to the said governor and company...
Seite 2 - Address from the Houses of the Parliament of Canada, to admit Rupert's Land and the...
Seite 3 - Land shall be admitted into the said Dominion of Canada shall have been approved of by Her Majesty and embodied in an address to Her Majesty from the Houses of the Parliament of Canada in pursuance of the 146th section o,f The British North America Act 1867...
Seite 17 - And furthermore that, upon the transference of the territories in question to the Canadian Government, the claims of the Indian tribes to compensation for lands required for purposes of settlement will be considered and settled in conformity with the equitable principles which have uniformly governed the British Crown in its dealings with the aborigines.
Seite 39 - Government may take without compensation such land as is necessary for the purpose, not exceeding one twenty-fifth of the total acreage of the block, but if the Canadian Government require any land which is actually under cultivation, or which has been built upon, or which is necessary for giving the Company's servants access to any river or lake, or as a frontage to any river or lake, they shall pay the Company the fair value of the same, and shall make compensation for any injury done to the Company...
Seite 26 - Canadian lines, should be made over to Canada, subject to such rights as the Hudson's Bay Company might be able to establish, and that the compensation to that Company (if any were found to be due) should be met by a loan guaranteed by Great Britain.
Seite 38 - Granville, his successor in office, for the acquisition by Canada of the territorial and other rights claimed by the Hudson's Bay Company in Rupert's Land, and in any other part of British North America not comprised in Rupert's Land, Canada or British Columbia, on the terms conditionally agreed to on behalf of the Government of Canada by the Honorable Sir George Et.
Seite 12 - Bay, including all the territory to the westward and southward of the said line, to the utmost extent of the country commonly called or known by the name of Canada...

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