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

Hammond transmits copies of a War Office letter, which suggests that the land and buildings purchased for the use of the Oregon Boundary Commission should eventually be transferred to the Colonial Authorities at a valuation, instead of private parties.

 Hammond, Edmund
Foreign Office
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Hammond to Merivale (Permanent Under-Secretary) 6288, CO 305/12, p. 183; received 17 June
Foreign Office
15 June 1859

I am directed by the Earl of Malmesbury to transmit to you, for the consideration of the Secretary of State for the Colonies, the accompanying Copies of a Letter and it's inclosures from the War Office suggesting that the land and buildings purchased for the use of the Oregon Boundary Commission should eventually be transferred to the Colonial Authorities at a valuation, insteadinstead of being disposed of to private parties.

I am etc. E. Hammond
See 6152. Reserve for Sir E. Lytton's successor. ABd 17 June
Extract, War Office to Hammond, 13 June 1859, forwarding correspondence concerning the disposition of facilities provided to the boundary commission.
Lt. Colonel J.S. Hawkins, Commissioner, to [War Office], 13 June 1859, advising that the property, currently belonging to the Foreign Department, should be transferred to the colonial authorities rather than being put up for private sale.