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Hammond, Edmund to Merivale, Herman 1 December 1858, CO 60:2, no. 12286, 113.

Abstract
Public Offices document. Minutes (2), Enclosures (untranscribed) (1).
Hammond transmits to the CO a report that several Thousand Californians who had gone to British Columbia have returned from thence.
The minutes Put by.
Enclosed is Booker to Malmesbury advising that nearly 10,000 miners had returned from British Columbia for various and conflicting reasons, and that exports to the colony had altogether ceased.
Hammond to Merivale (Permanent Under-Secretary)
Foreign Office
1 December 1858
Sir,
I am directed by the Earl of Malmesbury to transmit to you herewith, for the information of Secretary Sir Edward Lytton, a copy of a despatch from Mr Booker, Her Majesty's Counsul at San Francisco, stating that several Thousand Californians who had gone to British Columbia have returned from thence.
I am etc.
E. Hammond
Minutes by CO staff
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Mr Elliot
VJ 2 Decr
Mr Jadis
Put by.
TFE 2 Dec
Documents enclosed with the main document (not transcribed)
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William Lane Booker to Malmesbury, No. 62, 19 October 1858, advising nearly 10,000 miners had returned from British Columbia for various and conflicting reasons, and that exports to the colony had altogether ceased.