Colonial Despatches
The colonial despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871
Public Offices document
Hammond, Edmund to Merivale, Herman 19 July 1858, CO 305:9, no. 7094, 382.
Abstract
Public Offices document.
Minutes (1).
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.
Hammond to Merivale (Permanent Under-Secretary)
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.
Herman Merivale Esqre
