COUNCIL AND OFFICERS OF THE H. B. COMPANY. 209 



The affairs of the Hudson's Bay Company are managed 

 by a Governor-in-chief, sixteen chief factors, twenty-nine 

 chief traders, five surgeons, eighty-seven clerks, sixty- 

 seven postmasters, twelve hundred permanent servants, 

 and five hundred voyageurs, besides temporary employes 

 of different ranks, chiefly consisting of voyageurs and 

 servants. The total number of persons in the employ of 

 the Hudson's Bay Company is about 3000. 



Sir George Simpson has been Governor of the Hudson's 

 Bay Company for forty years. He exercises a general 

 supervision over the Company's affairs, presides at their 

 councils in the country, and has the principal direction of 

 the whole interior management in North America. The 

 Governor is assisted by a council for each of the two 

 departments into which the territory is divided. 



The seat of council for the northern department is at 

 Norway House, on Lake Winnipeg ; for the southern de- 

 partment at Michipicoten, Lake Superior, or Moose 

 Factory, on James' Bay. 



The council consists of the chief officers of the Com- 

 pany, the chief factors being ex-officio members of council. 

 Their deliberations are conducted in private. The sixteen 

 chief factors are in charge of different districts in the 

 territory, and a certain number of them assemble every 

 year at Norway House, for the northern department, 

 generally about the middle of June, to meet the Governor 

 and transact business. Seven chief factors, with the 



£ s. d. 



Brought forward 1,065,067 19 4 



Property and investments in the territory of 

 Oregon, ceded to the United States by the 

 treaty of 1846, and which are secured to the 

 Company as possessory rights under that 

 treaty— $1,000,000 sterling .... 200,000 0 0 



VOL. II. 



Total , £1,265,067 19 4 

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