The Department of State obtained a copy of the stenographic report 

 of the oral arguments of British counsel before the Fur Seal Tribunal 

 of Arbitration, Paris, 1893, through the courtesy of the British Foreign 

 Oflice. The papers were handed to Mr. Bayard, Ambassador of the 

 United States at London, with consent to their publication in the 

 American edition of the proceedings of the Tribunal. 



Department of State, 



Washington, D. C, August, 1895. 



