Hammond to Rogers (Permanent Under-Secretary)

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 to 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in the Island should be withdrawn.