Hammond to Merivale (Permanent Under-Secretary)

With reference to your letter of the 2nd Instant I am directed
by the Earl of Clarendon to request that you will acquaint Lord John
Russell that Her Majesty's Minister at Washington reports that the Bill
for providing for the expences of a Commission to settle the Boundary between Van Couver's Island and the territory of the United States was negatived by the United States Congress.