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

Hammond forwards copies of instructions which have been addressed to Her Majesty's Minister at Washington on the occupation of the Island of San Juan by Troops of the United States.

 Hammond, Edmund
Foreign Office
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Hammond to Merivale (Permanent Under-Secretary) 9538, CO 305/12, p. 220; received 24 September
Foreign Office
23 September 1859

With reference to my letter of the 19th Instant, I am directed by Lord John Russell to transmit to you, for the information of His Grace the Duke of Newcastle, copies of instructions which have been addressed to Her Majesty's Minister at Washington respecting the recent occupation of the Island of San Juan by Troops of the United States.

I am etc. E. Hammond
Duke of Newcastle With this I send you the former papers on this subject, & a draft (which has been copied signed erroneously before you had seen it) of a proposed letter to the Forn Office: but I am not sure that it expresses your meaning.

Enclosures to be annexed by & by.

HM S 24
The letter sent yesterday expressed my meaning fully. These further papers require no answer. N 24
Foreign Office to Lyons, British Minister at Washington, 12 September 1859, providing instructions on the course to be taken regarding the San Juan issue, with explanation.