Hammond to Merivale (Permanent Under-Secretary)

With reference to your Letter of the 30th of August last
relative to the proposed extension to Vancouvers' Island of the terms of
the Reciprocity Treaty of June 1854, I am directed by the Earl of
Clarendon to transmit to you a Copy of a Dispatch and of its Enclosure
from Her Majesty's Minister at Washington on the same subject, and I am
to request that, in laying these Papers before Mr Secretary Labouchere, you will state that Lord Clarendon would wish to be informed
what answer should be returned to Mr Crampton, respecting the Counter
propisitions which Mr Crampton states will probably be made by the
United States' Government, namely, that in return for their acceding to
the request of Her Majesty's Government in regard to Vancouver's Island,
the other possessions of the Two Countries on the Pacific Coast should
also be included in the Provisions of the Reciprocity Treaty.