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Public Offices document. Minutes (2).

Hammond informs Newcastle that it will not be necessary to withdraw Civil Officers from San Juan Island, as suggested by Douglas, because 100 marines will soon be established on the Island, and the British Magistrate will be protected.

Hammond, Edmund
Foreign Office
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Hammond to Merivale (Permanent Under-Secretary) 2535, CO 305/15, p. 148; received 9 March
Foreign Office
8 March 1860

I have laid before Lord John Russell your Letter of the 2d Instant, suggesting with reference to the observations contained in the Despatch from Governor Douglas, of which a Copy is inclosed, whether it would not be advisable that the Civil OfficersOfficers on both sides should be withdrawn from the Island of San Juan, which should be placed under Martial Law.

I am to state to you, in reply, for the information of His Grace the Duke of Newcastle, that Lord John Russell questions the expediency of disturbing the present arrangement; 100 marines will soon be establishedestablished on the Island, and the British Magistrate will be protected.

I am etc. E. Hammond
Mr Merivale VJ 9 March
Put by? HM Mh 9 CF 10 N 10