Colonial Despatches
The colonial despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871
Public Offices document
Hammond, Edmund to Merivale, Herman 9 July 1858, CO 305:9, no. 6609, 379.
Abstract
Public Offices document.
Minutes (2), Enclosures (untranscribed) (1).
Hammond informs the CO that Her Majesty’s Advocate General reports that Douglas “acted properly in declining to deliver up to the United States Government the soldiers
who had deserted from the Army of the United States.”
The minutes write “accordingly” to Douglas.
Enclosed is a report from Harding, Kelly, and Cairns to Malmesbury advising that according to the treaty of 9 August
1842, Douglas acted correctly in the matter.
Hammond to Merivale (Permanent Under-Secretary)
Foreign Office
July 9th 1858
Sir,
With reference to your letter of the 26th Ultimo, I am directed
by the Earl of Malmesbury to transmit to you for the information
of Secretary Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton a copy of a Report from
HerMajesty's
Majesty's Advocate General stating that the Governor of
Vancouver's Island acted properly in declining to deliver up to
the United States Government the soldiers who had deserted from
the Army of the United States.
Majesty's Advocate General stating that the Governor of
Vancouver's Island acted properly in declining to deliver up to
the United States Government the soldiers who had deserted from
the Army of the United States.
H. Merivale Esqre
&c &c &c
Documents enclosed with the main document (not transcribed)
J.D. Harding, FitzRoy Kelly, and H.M. Cairns to Malmesbury,
6 July 1858, advising that according to the treaty of 9 August
1842, Douglas acted correctly in the matter.