Hammond to Under-Secretary of State

With reference to your letter of the 3rd instant, relating to
the cession of Russian America to the United States, I am directed
by Lord Stanley to transmit to you, to be laid before His Grace The
Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, a copy of a letter from the Queen's
Advocate, reporting his opinion as to the extent to which the United
States are bound by the Treaty of 1825 between Great Britain and Russia.