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Hammond, Edmund to Merivale, Herman 2 January 1858, CO 305:9, no. 98, 355.

Abstract
Public Offices document. Minutes (2).
Hammond confirms the receipt of Merivale’s letter enclosing correspondence between Douglas and the Governor of Washington Territory “on the subject of the outrages committed on the citizens of the United States by the Native Indian Tribes.” He relays Clarendon’s approval of Douglas’s “conduct.”
The minutes “annex” Hammond’s report to their despatch to the colony.
Hammond to Merivale (Permanent Under-Secretary)
Foreign Office,
January 2d 1858
Sir,
I have laid before the Earl of Clarendon your Letter of the 30th Ultimo, inclosing Copies of a Correspondence between the Governor of Vancouver's Island and the Governor of Washington Territory on the subject of the outrages committed on the citizens of the United States by the native Indian Tribes, and I am directed by His Lordship to request that you will inform MrSecretaryManuscript image Secretary Labouchere Secretary Labouchere that he concurs with him in considering that the conduct of Governor Douglas on the occasion in question should be approved.
I am, Sir,
Your most obedient humble
servant,
E. Hammond
H. Merivale, Esq.
&c &c &c
Minutes by CO staff
Manuscript image
Mr Merivale
Approve the Govrs proceedings?
VJ 4 Jan
Annex dt.
HM Jan 4
Hammond, Edmund to Merivale, Herman 2 January 1858, CO 305:9, no. 98, 355. 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/V585FO01.html.

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