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APPENDICES. 
APPENDIX [A]. 
UNION OF THE COMPANIES. 
Extract of Letter to Governor Williams. 
[From the Hudson Bay Company? 1821.] 
28 Mar. You will receive herewith a new Commission as Governor in our 
Territory of Ruperts Land in Place of the Commission of Governor in Chief, 
which is hereby revoked. A Commission of Governor is also sent to Mr. Geo. 
Simpson but dated one Day after Yours, so that in all Cases when you may 
both be present you will preside as the Senior Governor at the Councils. In 
Point of Fact you will both be in the Northern Department this First Year and 
we have given Mr. Vincent a special Authority to preside at the Council to be 
held at Moose Factory, but Mr. Garry after conferring with you and Mr. 
Simpson will determine according to Circumstances whether it is most exped- 
ient that you or Mr. Simpson should proceed to Moose to act as Governor. 
MINUTES OF MY PROCEEDINGS. 
[Extract from letter of N. Garry.] 
To the Earl of Dalhousie. New York, the 11th May, 1821. 
I take the Liberty to forward a Letter I have received from the Foreign 
Office introducing me to your Lordships Notice but as my Time will not permit 
my visiting Quebec I have availed myself of the polite Offer of Mr. Laws to 
convey it to you by him—but I should not thus have troubled your Lordship 
did I not consider the Letter might contain other matter than an Introduction 
--that it might contain some Particulars of the Termination of the Disputes 
between the Hudson’s Bay and North-West Company. In thus addressing 
your Lordship I trust it will not be considered as presuming in me in taking 
the Liberty to inform your Lordship that I am waiting in New York the 
Arrival of Mr. S. McGillivray whom I expect to arrive every Day, to proceed 
with him into the Interior of the Hudson’s Bay Country, finally with him to 
carry into Effect the Arrangements which have been made in London between 
the two Companies. I am uncertain whether your Lordship is acquainted 
with the Particulars of the Arrangement but if your Lordship should wish to 
receive any Information it will afford me great Satisfaction to receive your 
Lordships Commands to this Effect or if your Lordship should have any Direc- 
tions to give me on my proceeding into the Interior I need not assure your 
Lordship that they will be punctually attended to by me. 
