Colonial Despatches
The colonial despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871
Despatch from London
Fortescue, Chichester to Douglas, James 31 July 1860, LAC RG7:G8C/2, 302.
Abstract
Despatch from London.
Enclosures (untranscribed) (1).
No. 29
Downing Street
31 July 1860
Sir,
Her Majesty's Government have had before them your despatch No.
24 of the 7th of May last repecting the Military occupation of the
Island of San Juan and suggesting the expediency in the present state
of the question of jurisdiction over that territory of the withdrawal
by the United States and by Great Britain of the Civil Magistracy 
in
that Island; and I am directed by the Secretary of State to transmit to
you for your information a copy of a despatch which Lord John Russell
has in consequence addressed to Her Majesty's Minister at Washington
instructing him to propose to the United States Govenment the withdrawal
on both sides of the Civil Magistracy from the Island.
in
that Island; and I am directed by the Secretary of State to transmit to
you for your information a copy of a despatch which Lord John Russell
has in consequence addressed to Her Majesty's Minister at Washington
instructing him to propose to the United States Govenment the withdrawal
on both sides of the Civil Magistracy from the Island.
Documents enclosed with the main document (not transcribed)
J. Russell to Lord Lyons, British Minister at Washington, 20 July
1860, instructing him to negotiate a withdrawal of both civil magistries
or a division of jurisdiction for each.