referred to the Law Officers of the
Crown
and I am
to transmit
to you, to be laid before Me Laboucher,
Copy of the report of those Officers upon this
M. Elliot_
11 Sent/56.
In Merivale.
subject.
Your most obedient
humble Servant
not Sure
whether decisions but so far
and these papers, I perceive, the Law
Officers' opinions simply
dated 12th June, of
which
D
will find
Annexed to the
Admiralty
Copy
letter 5587.
The
Foreign
office
as it
appears
apprised of their
240
to me,
when
Justified, followed
some doubts of their propriety and Consulted the Law Officers further
the result.
opinion.
being this favorable
If such be the case,
Nothing
more
remains to be
done and the letter
putly
1. F 13th Car.
may
J
I agree with you Elliot in his construction of this letter. Only am not sure whether we ought not to send copy of
the correspondence to the Admiralty for information. The former
half of your letter hardly shows how the
correspondence might
& R. think
a precis of the whole that has passed
in relation to this Act would be useful
In ufucme. Im 0.14
Copy the connelly M2.15