<persName ref="prs:hammond"><surname>Hammond</surname>, <forename>Edmund</forename></persName> to <persName ref="prs:merivale_h"><surname>Merivale</surname>, <forename>Herman</forename></persName> 29 September 1854, CO 305:5, no. 8493, 174. Hammond addressee Merivale (Permanent Under-Secretary)

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Hammond, Edmund to Merivale, Herman 29 September 1854, CO 305:5, no. 8493, 174.The Colonial Despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871, Edition 2.6, ed. James Hendrickson and the Colonial Despatches project. Victoria, B.C.: University of Victoria. https://bcgenesis.uvic.ca/V545FO07.html. CO 305:05 CO 305 5 8493 174 V.I. 1854 received 3 October co_305_05_00178r.jpg Transcribed from microfilm archives, marked up in Waterloo Script, then transformed into TEI P5 XML.

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Public Offices document. Minutes (2), Enclosures (untranscribed) (2).

Hammond writes to Merivale, on behalf of Clarendon to Grey, to forward a copy of Griffith's note on the importance of settling the Boundary between Vancouver's Island and the United States.

The minutes observe that, presumably, the Colonial Office can do nothing more on the present state of this [boundary] question at present.

The first document included in the file is a letter from Griffith to Clarendon, which communicates information received from Marcy; the second is a letter from Marcy to Griffith, which reports that an appropriation amendment needed to establish a boundary commission had been defeated, through want of time, in the US House of Representatives, and that the same amendment will be submitted again to Congress, next session.

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Hammond to Merivale (Permanent Under-Secretary) 8493, CO 305/5, p. 174; received 3 October
Foreign Office
September 29th 1854 Sir,

With reference to my letter of the 31st of August I am directed by the Earl of Clarendon to transmit to you, to be laid before Secretary Sir George Grey, a copy of a despatch from Her Majesty's Charg e d'affaires at Washington containing the reply of the United States Secretary of State to a note which Mr Griffith addressed to him urging the importance of settling the Boundary between Vancouver's Island and the United States.

I am, Sir, Your most obedient humble Servant E. Hammond Herman Merivale Esqre &c &c &c
Mr Elliot I am not aware that any thing remains to be done by us in the present state of this question. ABd 3 Octr
Mr Peel Put by? TFE 5 Octr FP 6 GG 9
1. Philip Griffith, British Charg e D'Affaires in Washington, to Earl of Clarendon, 7 September 1854, communicating the information received from U.S. Secretary of State William L. Marcy, as enclosed.
1.1 Marcy to Griffith, 7 September 1854, reporting that the appropriation amendment requested for a boundary commission had been defeated in the House of Representatives through want of time, and that it would be placed before Congress again early next session.