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Hammond, Edmund to Merivale, Herman 2 April 1857, CO 305:8, no. 3003, 294.

Abstract
Public Offices document. Minutes (2).
Hammond informs Merivale that the Foreign Office “concurs” with Labouchere that Douglas’s “proceedings” regarding the US Navy’s request “of landing Eighty-Seven Indian Prisoners” was correct.
The minutes make a note to write to Douglas “accordingly.”
Hammond to Merivale (Permanent Under-Secretary)
Foreign Office
April 2d 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 the arrival in Puget's Sound of the officer commanding the United States' Naval Forces, for the purpose of landing Eighty-Seven Indian Prisoners, and I am to request that you will state to Mr Secretary Labouchere that Lord Clarendon concurs in his opinion that the proceedings of Governor DouglasonManuscript image on the occasion in question should be approved.
I am Sir,
Your most obedient humble Servant,
E. Hammond

H. Merivale, Esqr
Minutes by CO staff
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Mr Merivale
Write to the Governor accly.
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Annex dt.
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Hammond, Edmund to Merivale, Herman 2 April 1857, CO 305:8, no. 3003, 294. 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/V575FO02.html.

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