Hammond to Merivale

In transmitting to you, to be laid before Mr Secretary Labouchere, the inclosed copies of correspondence with the War Department respecting the survey of the land portion of the Oregon Boundary, I am directed by the Earl of Clarendon to request that you will state to Mr Labouchere that His Lordship would be subject to him for the early communication of any observations or suggestions in regard to the instructions to be given to Captain Hawkins for the prosecution of the survey, as the instructions to that officer are now about to be drawn up.
Those instructions when reduced into shape will of course be communicated to Mr Labouchere for his concerrence; but, in the meanwhile, I am to request you to call his attention to the suggestion respecting Mr Palliser contained in the letter from the War Department, in which, as Mr Labouchere will perceive, Lord Clarendon concurs; and that you will move Mr Labouchere to give the necessary directions on the subject.