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 348 DOCUMENTARY 17th. That the agents shall on behalf of the Company give a bond of to the said Governor and Company of Hud- son's Bay, that neither the Puget's Sound Agricultural Com- pany, nor any person in their employ, nor by them taken into the district aforesaid, shall in any way, either directly or indi- rectly, trade in furs or peltries while in the employ or under agreement with the said Puget's Sound Agricultural Company ; and also that they (the said agents) shall make it a condition in every agreement to be entered into by them, with any person or persons to be employed by them in the district aforesaid, that the said agents shall be at liberty at any time to dismiss them from the service of the said Company, and to remove them from the said district to wherever such persons may have been originally engaged; and that such persons shall, in every re- spect, be subject to the like conditions, restrictions and regu- lations as the servants of the Governor and Company now are under, and particularly to the condition contained in the grant from the Crown under which the said Governor and Company are entitled to the exclusive trade within the said dis- trict. 18th. That whenever the Crown of Great Britain may become possessed of the sovereignty of any part of the district in which the operations of the Puget's Sound Agricultural Company may be carried on, application shall be made to the Crown for a grant of land, and to incorporate the said Puget's Sound Agricultural Company. 19th. That a proper deed of settlement shall be prepared under the superintendence of the said agents, in such a form, and containing all such clauses, covenants, powers and stipula- tions as counsel shall advise for properly and effectually carry- ing on the business of the said Company, and for indemnifying and saving harmless the said agents in respect of their acting in the management and conducting of the said trade as afore- said, and relating thereto ; and that the same or a counterpart thereof shall be executed by the several proprietors for the time being. 20th. That an absolute and entire dissolution of the said Company may lawfully take place, and be made with the con-