Hammond to Merivale (Permanent Under-Secretary)

With reference to my Letter of the 5th Instant I am directed by
the Earl of Clarendon to transmit to you, for the information of
Secretary Sir George Grey, a copy of a despatch from Mr
Crampton, Her Majesty's Minister at Washington, 
stating that the
clause which had been inserted in the General Appropriation
bill, empowering the President to make the necessary
arrangements for proceeding, in concert with Her Majesty's
Government, to lay down the Boundary between Vancouver's Island
and the United States, was objected to by the Senate 
and has
been expunged from the Bill.