REPORT OF THE UNITED STATES 

 BERING SEA COMMISSIONERS. 



The Honorable Secretary of State : 



Sie: In your letter of July 10, 1891, received Appointment. 

 by us in San Francisco on the 16th, after 

 referring to the diplomatic controversy pending 

 between the United States and Great Britain in 

 respect to the killing of fur-seals by British sub- 

 jects and vessels, to the causes which led up to 

 this controversy, and to some of the propositions 

 which had at that date been mutually agreed 

 upon, you inform us that the President has been 

 pleased to appoint us to proceed to the Pribilof 

 Islands and to make certain investigations of the 

 facts relative to seal life with a view to ascer- 

 taining what permanent measures are necessary 

 for the preservation of the fur-seal in Bering Sea 

 and the North Pacific Ocean. 



You further inform us that in accordance with „ Appointraent of 



British Commis- 



the provisions of the fourth clause of the moc^w5 ^^^^®^^' 

 Vivendi agreed upon at Washington on the 15tli 

 of June, 1891, the Queen had appointed Sir 

 George Baden-Powell, M. P., and Professor Daw- 



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