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Public Offices document
Hammond, Edmund to Merivale, Herman 30 March 1859, CO 305:12, no. 3320, 162.

Abstract
Public Offices document. Minutes (2), Enclosures (untranscribed) (1).
Hammond reports that Douglas’s loan to the Governor of Washington Territory will shortly be settled.
The minutes Apprize Douglas.
Enclosed is Napier, British Minister at Washington, to Malmesbury, 15 March 1859, advising that an appropriation of money had been noted by Congress for repayment of Douglas's claim.
Hammond to Merivale (Permanent Under-Secretary)
Foreign Office
30 March 1859
With reference to your letter of the 11th Instant, I am directed by the Earl of Malmesbury to transmit to you, for the information of Secretary Sir E.B. Lytton, a copy of a Despatch from HerManuscript imageHer Majesty's Minister at Washington, reporting that it is probable that Governor Douglas' claim against the Authorities of Washington Territory will shortly be settled.
I am etc.
E. Hammond
Minutes by CO staff
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Apprize the Governor.
ABd 31/3
Annex dt.
HM Mch 31
Documents enclosed with the main document (not transcribed)
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Napier, British Minister at Washington, to Malmesbury, 15 March 1859, advising that "an appropriation of money had been noted" by Congress for repayment of Douglas's claim.