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46,149 lettersMr. Crampton to Mr. Marcy. Washington, February 9, 1856. Sir: I have been instructed by Her Majesty’s Government to call the serious attention of the Government of the United States…
Mr. Crampton to Viscount Palmerston. No. 2.] Washington, January 13, 1848. My Lord: On the receipt of your Lordship’s dispatch No. 21, of the 17th ultimo, by which I am…
[Extract.] [August 24, 1859] Lord John Russell to Lord Lyons, 24th August, 1859; read, and copy given, to United States Secretary of State. I have to state to you that…
[Memorandum relative to the origin and privileges of the Hudson’s Bay Company.] [undated] In 1669, certain British subjects formed themselves into a Company, for the purpose of undertaking an expedition…
*Chronological List, showing the Names and Dates of Appointment of the various Principal Secretaries of State for Foreign Affairs in Great Britain, and British Ministers at Washington, and of the…
[Historical Note.—1818 to 1846.] [1818 to 1846] 1818. In 1818 an agreement was come to between the Government of His Britannic Majesty and that of the United States respecting the…
Second and definitive statement on behalf of the government of Her Britannic Majesty. [undated] 1. The Government of Her Britannic Majesty, in pursuance of Article XXXVI of the Treaty of…
No. 76. [March 29, 1872] United States of America, Department of State. To all to whom these presents shall come, Greeting: I certify that the paper hereto annexed is a…
[Extracts.] Lord John Russell to Lord Lyons. Foreign Office, December 16, 1859. My Lord: In pointing out, therefore, to your Lordship that in what-ever manner the question was ultimately settled,…
Mr. Cass to Mr. Dallas. Department of State, Washington, October 20, 1859. Sir: * * * * * * * The words of the treaty are “through the middle of…
[Extracts.] Lord John Russell to Lord Lyons. Foreign Office, August 24, 1859. The Earl of Aberdeen, to whom I have referred, informs me that he distinctly remembers the general tenor…
U. S. Northwest Boundary Commission Camp, Simiahmoo, Forty-ninth Parallel, September 25, 1858. Practically it can make no difference whether the main channel be adopted as “the channel” intended by the…
[Extracts.] Mr. Campbell to Mr. Cass. Washington City, February 10, 1858. Captain Prevost finally proposed such a compromise as would throw within the territory of the United States all the…
[Extract.] Mr. Edward Everett to Mr. Campbell. Boston, May 29, 1858. As the radical principle of the boundary is the forty-ninth degree of latitude, and the only reason for departing…
[Extracts.] Captain Prevost to Mr. Campbell. Her Britannic Majesty’s Ship Satellite, Simiahmoo Bay, Gulf of Georgia, October 28, 1857. 4. By a careful consideration of the wording of the treaty,…
*No. 69.[108] Foreign Office, December 20, 1856. If, however, the commissioner of the United States will not adopt the line along Rosario Strait, and if, on a detailed and accurate…
[Extract.] Mr. Crampton to Mr. Buchanan. Washington, January 13, 1848. But in regard to this portion of the boundary line a preliminary question arises, which turns upon the interpretation of…
[Untitled] Extract from a letter of Sir J. Pelly, Governor of the Hudson’s Bay Company, to the Earl of Aberdeen. [Precise date not stated, but from internal evidence certainly later…
Affidavit of W. H. Gray. In a conversation had with Dr. John McLaughlin, while he was in charge of the affairs of the Hudson Bay Company, (time I cannot state,…
No. 67. Hudson’s Bay House, February 7, 1838. My Lords: For many years previous to the grant of exclusive trade to the Hudson’s Bay Company, the trade of that coast…