<persName ref="prs:hammond"><surname>Hammond</surname>, <forename>Edmund</forename></persName> to <persName ref="prs:rogers_f"><surname>Rogers</surname>, <forename>Frederic</forename></persName> 30 March 1861, CO 305:18, no. 2962, 97. Hammond addressee Rogers (Permanent Under-Secretary)

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Hammond, Edmund to Rogers, Frederic 30 March 1861, CO 305:18, no. 2962, 97.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/V615FO04.html. CO 305:18 CO 305 18 2962 97 V.I. 1861 received 2 April co_305_18_00098r.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), Other documents (1).

Hammond writes Rogers, on behalf of Russell, to inform Newcastle that Russell agrees that the civil magistrate on San Juan Island should be withdrawn.

Hammond, Edmund
Foreign Office
Rogers, Frederic Inserted revisionDesc. added, edited, or reviewed abstract
Hammond to Rogers (Permanent Under-Secretary) 2962, CO 305/18, p. 97; received 2 April
Foreign Office
30 March 1861

I have laid before Lord John Russell your letter of the 19th Instant, inclosing a Copy of a Despatch from the Governor of British Columbia respecting the proposed substitution of Military for Civil Jurisdiction in San Juan, and I am tostate state to you, in reply, for the information of the Duke of Newcastle, that Lord John Russell concurs in the recommendation that the Civil Magistrate at present stationed in the Island should be withdrawn.

I am etc. E. Hammond
Mr Elliot Inform the GovrGovernor that H.M. GovtGovernment approve the withdrawal of the Civil Magistrate from San Juan as recommended by him in his desphdespatch of the 7 last Jany. ABd 2 Apl
Draft. TFE 2/4
Draft reply, Newcastle to Douglas, No. 53, 9 April 1861, informing him that his request that the civil magistrate on San Juan Island be withdrawn has been approved.