I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of Your Grace's despatch
No 35 of the
16 September last, transmitting copy of a despatch
from her Majesty's ChargeƩ d'affaires at
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Washington
enclosing copies of his communications with M Trescot on the subject of the
substitution of Military for Civil jurisdiction in
San Juan.
2. I await your Grace's instructions for the withdrawal of the Civil
Magistrate from
that Island whose legal jurisdiction virtually ceased when the sovereignty of the Island
was![Manuscript image Manuscript image](https://hcmc.uvic.ca/~coldesp/jpg_scans/jpg_thumbnail/co_305_17/co_305_17_00016r.jpg)
was admitted on both sides to be
in suspense. I would therefore, since no advantage can be gained
from his continuing to reside there, recommend the removal of that
Officer from the Island.