§ MR. HUMEwished to know whether a copy of the case submitted to Her Majesty's Attorney General and Solicitor General, and the opinions thereon, respecting the capability of the Hudson's Bay Company to hold land as a grant from the Crown on the North West Coast of America, referred to in the letters of Mr. Hawes and Sir H. Felly, printed in the Parliamentary papers presented to the House last August, respecting Vancouver's Island, would be laid upon the table?
§ MR. HAWESreplied, that the opinions had been obtained solely by and at the expense of the Hudson's Bay Company. The Government had, therefore, no power to obtain or present them to the House.