A BILL intituled 'An Act for enabling
Her Majesty to accept a Surrender upon Terms of the Lands, Privileges,
and Rights of "The Governor and Company of Adventurers of England
trading into Hudson's Bay," and for admitting the same into the
Dominion of Canada.
[Note. - The Words printed in
Red Ink are proposed to be inserted in Committee.]
Whereas by certain
Letters Patent granted by his late Majesty King Charles the Second in
the Twenty-Second Year of his Reign, certain Persons named therein were
incorporated by the Name of "The Governor and Company of Adventurers of
England trading into Hudson's Bay," and certain Lands and Territories,
Rights of Government, and other Rights, Privileges, Liberties,
Franchises, Powers, and Authorities, were thereby granted or purported
to be granted to the said Governor and Company in His Majesty's
Dominions in North America:
And whereas by the
British North America Act, 1867, it was (amongst other things) enacted
that it should be lawful for Her Majesty, by and with the Advice of her
Majesty's most Honourable Privy Council, on Address from the Houses of
the Parliament of Canada to admit Rupert's Land and the North-western
Territory,
