The Company–Crown transfer agreement

The British Crown took over North Borneo. The transfer agreement traced the Company’s asserted rights back to earlier grants and commissions. For the Sulu claim, the central question remained what those instruments had actually conveyed—not simply who now administered the territory.

Date

26 June 1946

Document type

Historical agreement; archival reprint enclosure

Issuing authority / creator

Ronald Reagan Presidential Library

Citation

Agreement of 26 June 1946, opening page reproduced in WHORM CO097 correspondence enclosure, PDF p. 17; copy cites Colonial No. 202 (1946).

Why it matters

The recitals carry the chain of grants and commissions into the Crown’s acquisition. They identify the transaction whose effect on Sulu’s asserted title became a later point of contention.