Hammond to Merivale (Permanent Under-Secretary)

With reference to your letter of the 22nd of January last, I am
directed by the Earl of Clarendon to transmit to you, to be laid before
Mr Secretary Labouchere, copies of a Despatch and of its inclosures
from Her Majesty's Minister at Washington relative to the repayment of a
sum of money advanced by the Governor of VanCouvers Island to the
Governor of Washington for 
the prosecution of hostilities against the Indians.