Colonial Despatches

Public Offices document. Minutes (2).

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Hammond informs Merivale that the Foreign Office concurs with Labouchere that Douglas’s proceedings regarding the US Navy’s request of landing Eighty-Seven Indian Prisoners was correct.

The minutes make a note to write to Douglas accordingly.