Hammond informs the CO that the Earl of Malmesbury concurs with Douglas on issuing a proclamation “prohibiting all Boats and Vessels, not having a License
from the Hudson’s Bay Company, from entering Frazer’s River for the purpose of trade.”
I am directed by the Earl of Malmesbury to acquaint you, in
reply to your letter of the 15th instant, that His Lordship
concurs in the Despatch which Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton proposes
to address to the Governor of Vancouvers Island on the subject
of a proclamation issued by that officer prohibiting all Boats
and Vessels, not having a License from the Hudson's Bay Company,
from entering Frazer's River for the purpose of Trade.
I am, Sir,
your most Obedient, Humble
Servant, E. Hammond
Hammond, Edmund to Merivale, Herman 19 July 1858, CO 305:9, no. 7094, 382. 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/V585FO08.html.
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