by the British Government to the Government of the States, according to a stipulation in the Treaty of Ghent.[72]
{256} By the same treaty, British subjects were granted the same rights of trade and settlement in Oregon as belonged to the citizens of the Republic, for the term of ten years; under the condition, that as both nations claimed Oregon the occupancy thus authorized should in no form affect the question as to the title to the country. This stipulation was by treaty of London, August 6, 1827, indefinitely extended; under the condition that it should cease to be in force twelve months from the date of a notice of either of the contracting powers to the other, to annul and abrogate it; provided such notice should not be given till after the 20th of October, 1828.[73] And this is the manner in which the British Hudson's Bay Company, after its union with the North-West Fur Company of Canada, came into Oregon.
They have now in the territory the following trading posts: Fort Vancouver, on the north bank of the Columbia, ninety miles from the Ocean, in latitude 45-1/2°, longitude 122° 30[']; Fort George, (formerly Astoria), near the mouth of the same river;[74] Fort Nasqually, on Puget's Sound, latitude 47°; Fort Langly, at the outlet of Fraser's
