Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the President, December 3, 1888, Part I

No. 578.
Sir L. S. Sackville West to Mr. Bayard.

Washington, May 21, 1888. (Received May 22.)

Sir: I am informed by the Marquis of Salisbury that a number of Indians from Metlakahtla, in British Columbia, under the leadership of a Mr. William Duncan, formerly a lay missionary of the Church Missionary Society, have withdrawn from that point, and that from information received have settled within the territory of Alaska.

It is presumed that such immigration and settlement is not contrary to the immigration laws of the United States.

I have, etc.,

L. S. Sackville West.