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

Public Offices document
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.

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 proposedInstruction

Instruction.