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Hammond, Edmund to Merivale, Herman 2 April 1857, CO 305:8, no. 3002, 293.

Abstract
Public Offices document. Minutes (2).
Hammond informs Merivale that the Foreign Office “concurs” with Labouchere that Douglas’s decision “in declining to allow [American soldiers] to be arrested on British Territory” was correct.
The minutes make a note to write to Douglas “accordingly.”
Hammond to Merivale (Permanent Under-Secretary)
Foreign Office
2nd April 1857
Sir,
I have laid before the Earl of Clarendon your Letter of the 26th Ultimo, inclosing a Copy of a Despatch from the Governor of Vancouver's Island, reporting what passed at an Interview which he had with Lieutenant Flemming of the United States Army, on the subject of the surrender of some American Soldiers, who had deserted from the detachment under his command; and I am to request that you will state to Mr Secretary Labouchere thatLordManuscript image Lord Clarendon concurs with him in his approval of the conduct of Governor Douglas in declining to allow these men to be arrested on British Territory.
I am, Sir
Your most obedient humble Servant,
E. Hammond

H. Merivale, Esqr
&c &c &c
Minutes by CO staff
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Mr Merivale
Write accly to the Governor.
ABd 4 Apl
Annex dt.
HM Apl 4
Hammond, Edmund to Merivale, Herman 2 April 1857, CO 305:8, no. 3002, 293. 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/V575FO01.html.

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