168 DirLOMATIC COKRESPO^TDENCE. 



Mr. Bayard to Sir L. S. Sacl-vine West 



Department of State, 



Washinf/to7i, October x% 1887. 

 Siu: I lind the lioiiov of receiving last evening your note of the 19tli 

 instant, convening the instruction to you by the Marquis of Salisbury 

 that you should protest against the seizure of the Canadian vessel 

 Alfred Adams \u Behring Sea, and against the continuance of similar 

 proceedings by the United States authorities on the high seas; and I 

 have, etc., 



T. F. Bayakd. 



Sir L. S. Sacl-vlUe West to Mr. Bayard. 



Washington, October 26., 1887. (Received October 27.) 

 Sir : With refereiice to my note of the 19th instant, protesting against 

 the seizure of the British schooner Alfred Adams, I have the honor to 

 transmit to you herewith copy of the report of the Canadian minister 

 of marine and fisheries and other paijers relating thereto. 

 I have, etc., 



L. S. Sackville West. 



(For inclosure, see Senate Ex. Doc. No. 100. 50th Congress, 2d ses- 

 sion, pp. 59-04. lu this document will also be found further corre- 

 spondence relating to the foregoing subject.) 



CORRESPONDENCE RELATIVE TO PROPOSED INTERNATIONAL 

 MEAfiURBS FOR THE PROTECTION OF FUR-SEALS. 



Mr. Bayard to Mr. Vifjnand.^ 



No. 250.] Department of State, 



Washington., August I'J, 1887. 



Sir: Becent occurrences have drawn the attention of this Depart- 

 ment to the necessity of t:iking steps for the better protection of the 

 fur-seal fisheries in Behring Sea. 



Without raising any question as to the exceptional measures whicli 

 the peculiar cliaracter of tlie ]>roperty in question might justify this 

 Government iu taking, and without reference to any exceptional marine 

 jurisdiction that might properly be claimed for that end, it is deemed 

 advisable — and I am instructed by the President so to inform you — to 

 attain the desired ends by international cofiperntion. 



It is well known that the unregulated and iiidiscriniinate killing of 

 seals in many parts of the world has driven tliem Irom place to ])lace, 

 and, by breaking up their habitual resorts, has greatly reduced tlu^ir 

 number. 



Under these circumstances, and in view of the common interest of 

 all nations in preventing the indiscriminate destruction and consequent 



' Identic instructions were sent to the United States ministers to Gormauy, 

 Great Britain, .Japan, Russia, aud Sweden and Norway. 



