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Public Offices document
Paget, Clarence Edward to Merivale, Herman 20 January 1860, CO 305:15, no. 698, 3.

Abstract
Public Offices document. Minutes (2), Other documents (1).
Paget informs the Colonial Office that the Admiralty would like to take possession of the Ground, Buildings &ca at Esquimalt, Vancouvers Island, purchased for the North American Boundary Commission once the Commission's work is complete.
Paget to Merivale (Permanent Under-Secretary)
Admiralty
20 January 1860
With reference to your Letter of the 5th Instant, on the subject of reserving for Naval purposes the Ground, Buildings &ca at Esquimalt, Vancouvers Island, purchased for the North American Boundary Commission, I am commanded by my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, to acquaint you for the information of His Grace the Duke of Newcastle, that they would wish that this property at Esquimalt Harbour should be transferred to them for Naval purposes when no longer requiredManuscript imagerequired for the use of the Surveying party under Colonel Hawkins.
I am etc.
C. Paget
Minutes by CO staff
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Mr Merivale
Instruct the Govr to transfer the property at Esquimalt Harbor to the Admiralty when no longer required by the Surveying Party?
VJ 21 Jan
Annex dt.
HM Jan 21
Other documents included in the file
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Draft reply, Newcastle to Douglas, No. 5, 2 February 1860, informing him that the Admiralty would like to take possession of the ground [and] buildings at Esquimalt, purchased for the North American Boundary Commission, once the Commission's work is complete.