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Hammond, Edmund to Peel, Frederick 15 September 1854, CO 305:5, no. 8044, 173.

Abstract
Public Offices document. Minutes (2).
Hammond writes to Peel to report Clarendon’s approval of Grey’s proposed instructions to Douglas, relative to the Sovereignty of the British Crown over the Islands in the Canal de Arro.
The minutes ask that Douglas be sent a despatch which conveys Grey’s instructions on the boundary dispute.
Hammond to Peel (Parliamentary Under-Secretary)
Foreign Office
September 15, 1854
Sir,
I have laid before the Earl of Clarendon your Letter of the 11th Instant, enclosing a Draft of an Instruction which Secretary Sir George Grey proposes to address to the Governor of Vancouver's Island relative to the Sovereignty of the British Crown over the Islands in the Canal de Arro; and I am to request that you will inform Sir George Grey that Lord Clarendon concurs in the Terms of the proposedInstructionManuscript image Instruction.
I am, Sir,
Your most obedient humble Servant,
E. Hammond

Frederick Peel Esq.
&c &c &c
Minutes by CO staff
Manuscript image
Mr Elliot
The despatch to the Governor may now proceed?
VJ 16 Sepr
TFE 16/9
FP 21
GG 21
Desp dated 21 Sept/54 No 4.
[VJ]
P 28/4-55
Hammond, Edmund to Peel, Frederick 15 September 1854, CO 305:5, no. 8044, 173. The Colonial Despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871, Edition 2.2, ed. James Hendrickson and the Colonial Despatches project. Victoria, B.C.: University of Victoria. https://bcgenesis.uvic.ca/V545FO06.html.

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