28 CONSTITUTIONAL HISTORY OF THE PROVINCES. 
pany or individual within the same shall be respected and 
placed under the protection of courts of competent juris- 
diction.” 
(2) “That the claims of the Indian tribes to compensation 
for land required for purposes of the settlement will be con- 
sidered and settled in conformity with the equitable prin- 
ciples which have uniformly governed the British Crown in its 
dealings with the aborigines.” 
The second address relating to Rupert's Land dealt mainly 
with the rights reserved to the Hudson’s Bay Company, but 
stipulated that claims of Indians to compensation for land 
required for purposes of settlement should be disposed of by 
the Canadian Government in communication with the Im- 
perial Government. 
From the date of the admission the Canadian Parliament 
over the acquired legislative power over the newly admitted territories. 
a. By the Order in Council it was declared as regards the 
North West Territory that “the Parliament of Canada should 
from the day aforesaid have full power and authority to legis- 
late for the future welfare and good government of the said 
territory,” and such Order in Council has by the British 
North American Act, 1867, the force of an Act of Parliament. 
As regards Rupert's Land the Order in Council was silent 
as to legislative power, but by the Rupert's Land Act, 1868, 
it was enacted as regards all territories belonging to the 
Hudsons Bay Company that 
«it shall be lawful for the Parliament of Canada from the 
date aforesaid (i.e. of admission) to make ordain and establish 
within the land and territory so admitted as aforesaid all such 
laws institutions and ordinances and to constitute such courts 
and officers as may be necessary for the peace order and good 
government of Her Majesty's subjects and others therein.” 
Soin Previous to the surrender of the North West Territories 
vernment an Act was passed by the Dominion Parliament providing 
1 381 & 82 Vie. (i) ¢. 105, 5. 5.