Colonial Despatches
The colonial despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871
Public Offices document
Hammond, Edmund to Merivale, Herman 25 January 1860, CO 305:15, no. 856, 118.
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Hammond, Edmund to Merivale, Herman 25 January 1860, CO 305:15, no. 856, 118.
Public Offices document.
Minutes (2), Other documents (1).
Hammond to Merivale (Permanent Under-Secretary)
Foreign Office
25 January 1860
In reply to your letter of the 24th Instant, I am directed by Lord John Russell, to request that you will inform the Duke of Newcastle
that His Lordship is of opinion that the Stores destined for the use
of the Oregon Boundary Commission should be insured.
Minutes by CO staff
Mr Merivale
Instruct the Agents General to insure these goods accly & add that they should recover payment from the War Dept—which Office, I am informed, is the Cashier of the Foreign Office in this matter.
Instruct the Agents General to insure these goods accly & add that they should recover payment from the War Dept—which Office, I am informed, is the Cashier of the Foreign Office in this matter.
ABd
27/1
Annex dt.
HM
Jan 27
Other documents included in the file
Draft, Merivale to Edward Barnard, Crown Agents, 3
February 1860, requesting that the stores be insured and
that application for repayment be made to the War Office.