Council
Office
Sir,
318/6onglong
RECEIVES
MAR26 1860.
Council Office, Whischall,
26 March 1860.
53
Royal Instructions prepared &c.
(dated 21 March) and sent to Admiralty.
I am directed by the Lord President of the Council to transmit to you the enclosed Order of Her Majesty in Council of this day's date approving a draft Instruction to the Courts of Admiralty, in the Majesty's Colonial Possessions, relative to the mode of proceeding on the capture, sale &c. of Vessels &c. belonging to or employed by the Enemy, or taken otherwise in the course of War, as shall be brought in for adjudication;
and I am to request that you will be pleased to lay the same before the Secretary of State for the Colonial Department.
To A. Merivale
Merivale &c.
I am,
Sir,
Your most obedient Servant,
W. L. Bathurst
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