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the North West Territory, or either of them, into the Union on 
such terms and conditions in each case as should be expressed 
in such addresses and as Her Majesty should approve, subject 
to the provisions of the Act, and it was further declared that 
any Order in Council in that behalf should have the force of 
an Act of Parliament. 
In 1867 the Canadian Houses of Parliament adopted a Admission 
joint address to Her Majesty praying for the admission of the Terri- 
above two territories into the Union: but it was found that °F 
the then existing charter of the Hudson's Bay Company 
which owned and enjoyed certain rights over a portion of the 
territory in question, would prevent full powers of govern- 
ment and legislation over Rupert’s Land and the North West 
Territory being transferred to the Canadian Parliament. 
To remedy this state of things the « Rupert's Land Act, Dubus 
1868,” was passed, enabling the Hudson’s Bay Company 186s. 
to surrender to Her Majesty and Her Majesty to accept a 
surrender of all their lands and rights enjoyed under their 
Letters Patent, provided that the terms and conditions on 
which Rupert's Land was to be admitted into the Dominion 
should be approved by Her Majesty and embodied in an 
address from both Houses of the Dominion Parliament. 
The details of the surrender being settled a second address 
was presented to Her Majesty in 1869, and on the 24th June, 
1870, it was by Order in Council? declared that from the 
15th day of July, 1870, the North West Territory and 
Rupert's Land were to be admitted into and become part 
of the Dominion. 
The admission was made subject to the terms and con- 
ditions contained in the addresses, but on looking at the 
addresses it will be found that the first address relating to the 
North West Territory contains only two clauses of importance, 
viz. (1) “the Government and Parliament of Canada will be Condi- 
ready to provide that the legal rights of any corporation, com- tions. 
1 81 & 32 Vie. (i) c. 105. 2 See Appendix.