Colonial Despatches
The colonial despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871
Public Offices document
Hammond, Edmund to Merivale, Herman 29 February 1860, CO 305:15, no. 2242, 133.
Abstract
Hammond, Edmund to Merivale, Herman 29 February 1860, CO 305:15, no. 2242, 133.
Public Offices document.
Minutes (2), Other documents (2).
Hammond to Merivale (Permanent Under-Secretary)
Foreign Office
29 February 1860
I have laid before Lord John Russell your Letter of the 22nd instant
respecting the Land and Buildings purchased for the use of the Oregon
Boundary Commission, and I am to state to you, in reply, for the
information of His Grace the Duke of Newcastle, that the Land and
Buildings in question are actually the property of the Foreign
Office, and that Lord John Russell
Russell will be willing to transfer them
to the Admiralty as soon as the labours of the Commission are
concluded, but that His Lordship cannot, at present, fix a time for
this transfer.
Russell will be willing to transfer them
to the Admiralty as soon as the labours of the Commission are
concluded, but that His Lordship cannot, at present, fix a time for
this transfer.
Minutes by CO staff
Mr Merivale
Inform the Admiralty in ansr to their Letters of the 20 Jany and 8 Feby last; & inform the Governor also with reference to the Duke of Newcastle's desph of 2 Feby 698.
Inform the Admiralty in ansr to their Letters of the 20 Jany and 8 Feby last; & inform the Governor also with reference to the Duke of Newcastle's desph of 2 Feby 698.
ABd
1/3
Annex dt.
HM
Mh 1
Other documents included in the file
Draft, Merivale to Secretary to the Admiralty, 12 March 1860,
advising the Foreign Office would be willing to transfer the property
when no longer required by the boundary commission.
