Hammond to Merivale (Permanent Under-Secretary)

With reference to the question now before the Secretary of State
for the Colonial Department of extending to the Colony of Vancouver's Island the provisions of the Treaty between this Country and the United
States of America of the 5th of June 1854 I am directed by the Earl of Clarendon to transmit to you, to be laid before Mr Secretary Labouchere, a Copy of a Letter from the Hudson's Bay Company
communicating to His Lordship a Correspondence which has taken place
with your Department upon this subject, with further observations
relative thereto.