Colonial Despatches
The colonial despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871
Public Offices document
Wodehouse, John to Rogers, Frederic 23 July 1860, CO 305:15, no. 7352, 234.
Abstract
Public Offices document.
Minutes (2), Enclosures (untranscribed) (1).
Wodehouse to Rogers (Permanent Under-Secretary)
23 July 1860
I have laid before Lord John Russell your letter of the 11th Instant
containing a copy of a Despatch from the Governor of Vancouver's
Island, respecting the Military occupation of the Island of San Juan,
and suggesting the expediency, in the present state of the question
of jurisdiction over that Territory, of the withdrawal by the United
States and by Great
Great Britain of the Civil Magistracy in that Island;
and I am to transmit to you, for the information of His Grace The
Duke of Newcastle, a Copy of a Despatch which Lord John Russell has
in consequence addressed to Her Majesty's Minister at Washington,
instructing him to propose to the United States' Government the
withdrawal, on both sides, of the Civil Magistracy from the Island.
Great Britain of the Civil Magistracy in that Island;
and I am to transmit to you, for the information of His Grace The
Duke of Newcastle, a Copy of a Despatch which Lord John Russell has
in consequence addressed to Her Majesty's Minister at Washington,
instructing him to propose to the United States' Government the
withdrawal, on both sides, of the Civil Magistracy from the Island.
