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Hudson's Bay Company; Hargrave, James (1798-1865) [info]. Private instructions for the Company's agents. [London: Hudson's Bay Co, 1858].
- Physical description: 3 p.; 33 cm.
- Language: English
- At head of title: "Hudson's Bay Company." Dated: "Hudson's Bay House, London, November 22, 1858." Signed: "Thomas Fraser, Secretary." While Fraser signed it, there are extensive quotations from Hargrave on the matter of allowances and rations at York Factory, as well as at other stations. The issue which provoked the document: "…the Company are aware that of late, complaints have been raised that in those rations some luxuries are omitted which, though used by the labouring classes in modern times, were not thought necessary at the period when the scale of rations was originally arranged. The Committee are anxious to conform to the change, and they have consequently included Tea and Sugar among the rations to be supplied to all classes of Servants, at the same time, that the option will be given to such as may choose to dispense with those articles, to get an equivalent for the whole, or for a part, in money."
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