Colonial Despatches
The colonial despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871
Public Offices document
Hammond, Edmund to Merivale, Herman 31 January 1859, CO 60:5, no. 1117, 452.
Abstract
Public Offices document.
Minutes (3), Enclosures (untranscribed) (2), Other documents (2).
Hammond provides Lytton with information regarding American legislation on “the carrying of Passengers coastwise.”
The minutes send this information to the North American colonies and the Board of
Trade.
Included in this file is a draft reply, Lytton to Governors of the North American Colonies,
Confidential, 10 February 1859; Merivale to J. Booth, Board of Trade, 11 February 1859,
forwarding information on the status of American law with respect to
their own navigational rights; Napier, British Minister at Washington, to Malmesbury, 9 January
1859, forwarding information regarding the exclusion of foreign shipping
from the coasting trade of the United States in relation to passenger
transportation; and, John Nelson, U.S. Attorney General's Office, to J.C. Spencer,
U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, 2 November 1843, advising there were no
provisions regarding the transportation of passengers in any
legislation passed to regulate the coasting trade.
Hammond to Merivale (Permanent Under-Secretary)
Foreign Office
31 January 1859
Sir,
With reference to the last paragraph of the Letter from
the Colonial Office of the 9th November last, in which
it is stated that Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton is desirous of
obtaining information respecting the Laws of the United
States regulating the carrying of Passengers coastwise,
I am directed by The Earl of Malmesbury to transmit to you,
to be laid before Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton, a Copy of a
Despatch from Lord Napier in reply to Lord Malmesbury's
enquiry
enquiry on this subject.
enquiry on this subject.
Minutes by CO staff
I should think it might be worthwhile to send it
confidentially to the Governors of the N. Am. Colonies;
& also to communicate it to the Bd of Trade.
HM
Feb 1
Annex drafts.
C
Feby 1
Other documents included in the file
Draft reply, Lytton to Governors of the North American Colonies,
Confidential, 10 February 1859.
Documents enclosed with the main document (not transcribed)
Napier, British Minister at Washington, to Malmesbury, 9 January
1859, forwarding information regarding the exclusion of foreign shipping
from the coasting trade of the United States in relation to passenger
transportation.
John Nelson, U.S. Attorney General's Office, to J.C. Spencer,
U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, 2 November 1843, advising there were no
provisions regarding the transportation of passengers in any
legislation passed to regulate the coasting trade.