Hammond to Under-Secretary of State
Foreign Office
June 4, 1870
Sir,
I am directed by the Earl of Clarendon to acknowledge the receipt of your Letter of the 2nd instant forwarding a copy of a Resolution passed by the Legislative Council of British Columbia relative to the Island of San Juan; and in reply I am to request that you will state to Earl Granville that Lord Clarendon fears that it will be of no use at present to moot this question with the United States Government.
I am to add that copies of this correspondence will be sent, Confidentially, to Mr Thornton by this day's Mail.
I am Sir, your most obedient
humble Servant
E. Hammond
Minutes by CO staff
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Mr Herbert
The Governor's despatch has been acknd & nothing remains to be done unless to tell Mr Musgrave as here stated Confidentially for his own information.
CC 8 June
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In his closing speech recd today (6117) Mr Musgrave tells the Council that their Resolution should be laid before HM's Govt.
RGWH June 8/70
FR 8/6
WM 9/6
G 10/6
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Draft reply, Granville to Musgrave, Confidential, 15 June 1870.
Hammond, Edmund to Monsell, William 4 June 1870, CO 60:42, no. 6150, 189. The Colonial Despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871, Edition 2.0, ed. James Hendrickson and the Colonial Despatches project. Victoria, B.C.: University of Victoria. https://bcgenesis.uvic.ca/B705FO07.html.

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