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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE

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No. 489.

(CANADA.)

LAW OFFICERS to FOREIGN OFFICE.

Temple, January 11, 1868. MY LORD,

We are honoured with your Lordship's commands, signified in Mr. Hammond's letter of the 4th instant, stating he was directed to transmit to us a letter and its enclosures from the Colonial Office relative to the abduction of two British subjects from the province of New Brunswick into the territory of the United States, and to request that we would take these papers into consideration and furnish your Lordship with our opinion thereupon.

In obedience to your Lordship's commands we have the honour to

Report

That it will be desirable for your Lordship to await the further information for which Lord Monck has written in explanation of the part which the chief of the police and the police magistrate at St. John's have taken in furthering the removal of the applicants from British territory. At present no justification for the invasion of British territory is disclosed in the documents forwarded, and we think that Lord Monck has done right in promptly calling the attention of the Chargé d'Affaires at Washington to the circumstances of the case with a view to his communicating with the Secretary of State of the United States and asking for investigation into them.

The Lord Stanley, M.P.,

&o.

&c.

We have, &c. (Signed)

J. B. KARSLAKE.

C. J. SELWYN,

T. TWISS.

o 16378-449.

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