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Hammond, Edmund to Merivale, Herman 3 March 1856, CO 305:7, no. 2015, 170.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/V565FO02.html. CO 305:07 CO 305 7 2015 170 V.I. 1856 received 5 March co_305_07_00172r.jpg Transcribed from microfilm archives, marked up in Waterloo Script, then transformed into TEI P5 XML.

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Public Offices document. Minutes (4), Enclosures (transcribed) (2), Enclosures (untranscribed) (1), Marginalia (1).

Hammond writes to Merivale transmitting a copy of a despatch from Clarendon and suggests that the Americans should add the counter propositions regarding possession of coastal countries to the provisions of the Reciprocity Treaty.

The minutes discuss whether the Falklands should also be incorporated into the reciprocity treaty.

Enclosed is a draft reply from Ball to Shepherd that forwards the enclosed document and asks about any objections to the American counter proposals; a letter from Crampton to Clarendon discussing the likely objections that the Americans will have about the Reciprocity Treaty; and a letter from Crampton to Marcy asking the American Government to include Vancouver Island in the Reciprocity Treaty.

Hammond, Edmund
Foreign Office Washington
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Hammond to Merivale (Permanent Under-Secretary) 2015, CO 305/7, p. 170; received 5 March
Foreign Office
March 3, 1856 Sir,

With reference to your Letter of the 30th of August last relative to the proposed extension to Vancouvers' Island of the terms of the Reciprocity Treaty of June 1854, I am directed by the Earl of Clarendon to transmit to you a Copy of a Dispatch and of its Enclosure from Her Majesty's MinisterMinister at Washington on the same subject, and I am to request that, in laying these Papers before Mr Secretary Labouchere, you will state that Lord Clarendon would wish to be informed what answer should be returned to Mr Crampton, respecting the Counter propisitions which Mr Crampton states will probably be made by the United States' Government, namely, that in return for their acceding to the request of Her Majesty's Government in regard to Vancouver's Island, the other possessions of the Two Countries on the Pacific Coast shouldshould also be included in the Provisions of the Reciprocity Treaty.

I am Sir, Your most obedient humble Servant, E. Hammond H. Merivale Esqre
Mr Merivale The documents appended (registered 6353/54, 10700/54, 11321/54, 5019/55, 5433/55, 7866/55) will, I think, be sufficient for yr purpose on this subject.

Might not this oppy be taken to include the Falklands in any new Reciprocity Treaty. The place is constantly poached upon by American Fishermen—whom to punish is always a source of annoyance to the two Govts—and, though it has nothing to reciprocate, it might possibly derive advantage from the Accession of Shipping though only of the fishing sort. I admit that it is rather travelling out of the geographical limits contemplated in the New Treaty to include the Falklands; but it might be convenient to concede the fishing there as a make-weight against some American claim, and not without advantage to the Settlement itself, whilst we should be getting rid of a right which it is difficult for us to prevent being trespassed upon.

ABd 6/3
This country has no possessions on the Pacific except the coast from opposite Vancr Id Northward to what are called the Russian dominions in America. I never heard that the fisheries were [pursued?] to any account, except to a small extent in the immediate vicinity of Vanc. Id. I am unaware of any objection to this concession, but it might be worth while to ask the H.B.Co. what they think of it? HM Mh 8
I concur. JB 10 M
Consult the H.B. Compy. HL 10
Draft, Ball to John Shepherd, Hudson's Bay Company, 15 March 1856, forwarding the enclosures and asking if there were any objections to the expected American counter proposal. 15th March 1856 Sir,

I am directed by Mr Secretary Labouchere to request that you will lay before the Directors of the Hudson's Bay Company the enclosed letter addressed to this Department by order of the Earl of Clarendon, transmitting copy of a Despatch from Her Majesty's Minister at Washington relative to the extension of the Reciprocity Treaty with the United States to Vancouver's Island: the provisions of which are embodied in the Act of Parliament 18th Vict: C. 3.

I am to request that the Directors will inform Mr Labouchere whether they see any objection to the acceptance by Her Majesty's Government of the Counter propositions which in the opinion of Mr Crampton may probably be put forward by the American Government.

I have etc: J.B.
2. J.F. Crampton to Clarendon, No. 38, 18 February 1856, stating the Americans would likely counter any British proposals to extend the Reciprocity Treaty.
Washington
Feb: 18, 1856 My Lord,

I did not fail, in obedience to the instructions contained in Y. Ldp's Despatch 189 of Sep: last, to bring under the attention of the U. State's GovtGovernment the desire of H.M. GovtGovernment that the terms of the Reciprocity Treaty of June 1854 shdshould now be applied to Vancouver's Island, in addition to the other British North American Colonies therein.

Mr Marcy, when I first alluded to this subject, remarked that before he could form any opinion in regard to the Expediency of such a measure it wdwould be necessary for him to consult some of the Representatives in Congress of the States and Territories who might be supposed to be more particularly interested in the matter.

Congress having since been assembled and at length organised, I took an opportunity to bring the subject again under Mr Marcy's attention, and to explain to him the mutual advantages which might be expected from a reciprocal trade between Vancouver's Island and the neighbouring parts of the U. States: and I also stated to him that the objection, which had been raised on the part of H.M. GovtGovernment in 1854 to the cession of the right of fishing on the shores of the British Territories on the Pacific had, as far as the shores of Vancouver's Island were concerned, been removed.

Y. Ldp will probably recollect that at an early stage in the negotiation of the Reciprocity Treaty Mr Marcy himself proposed to me that the engagements of the Treaty, more especially as regarded the fisheries, shdshould be extended to the British Possessions and the U.S. Territories on the Pacific Coast of this Continent: but that this was objected to by H.M. GovtGovernment on the ground that the British Possessions on that Coast having been granted by Charter to the Hudsons' Bay Company together with all Royalties and Rights thereunto appertaining, it was out of the power of H.M. GovtGovernment to cede any such Rights by Treaty. *

ShdShould the U. States' GovtGovernment now think it expedient to enter upon negotiations for embracing Vancouver's Island in the provisions of the Treaty, I think it probable that they wdwould propose to include likewise therein the other possessions of the two Countries on the Pacific Coast; and they will not, I apprehend, fail to ask for a concession of the right of fishing on the Coasts of the mainland of the British Possessions, and on those of Queen Charlotte's Island, as well as on those of Vancouver's Islands; it might therefore perhaps be well that I shdshould be in possession of the views of H.M. GovtGovernment in regard to this matter before such negotiation shdshould be commenced.

I have in the meantime addressed a note to Mr Marcy of which I have the honor to enclose a Copy, embodying the proposal of H.M. GovtGovernment in regard to Vancouver's Island, with a view to its being brought under the consideration of the U. States' GovtGovernment.

J.F. Crampton The E of Clarendon
Crampton to W.L. Marcy, 15 February 1856, asking whether the American government would be prepared to consider extending the terms of the reciprocity treaty to include Vancouver Island.
A mere mistake, see minutes on 5433. HM