318 DIPLOMATIC CORRKSrONDENCE. 



made public, to the end that the same and every part tliereof may be 

 observed and fulfilled with good faith by the Uuited States of America 

 and the citizens thereof. 



In witness hereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal 

 of the United ^istates to be aftixed. 



Done at the city of Washington this fifteenth day of June, in the 

 year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-one, and of 

 the Independence of the United States the one hundred and fifteenth. 



[SEAL.] Benj. Harrison. • 



By the President : 



William F. Wharton, 



Acting Secretary of State, 



Mr. Wharton to Sir Julian Fauncefote. 



Department of State, 

 Washington, June 20, 1891. 

 Sir: I have the honor to tram^mit to you herewith copies of the in- 

 structions that have been issued by the Secretary of the Navy, in pur- 

 suance of the proclamation of the President of June 15, 1891, relative 

 to the modus vivcndi resi)ecting the fur-seal fisheries in Behring Sea. 



This (xovernment would be please<l to receive in exchange copies of 

 such instructions as may be issued by Her Britannic Majesty's Goveru- 

 meut on the same subject.^ 

 I have, etc., 



William F, Wharton, 



Acting Secretary. 



Sir Julian Fauncefote to Mr. Whttrfon. 



British Legation, 

 Washington., June 21, IS'Jl. 

 Sir: I have the honor to inform you that I have received a commu- 

 nication from Her Majesty's Princi[)al Secretary of State for Foreign Af- 

 fairs to the effect that the Queen has been graciously pleased to apjioint 

 Sir George Baden Powcl, M. P., and Prof. Dawson commissioners to 

 proceed to the Pribilof Islands for the purpose of examining into the 

 fur-seal fishery in Behring Sea. 



In accordance- with the instruction of the j\Iar(piis of Salisbury, I have 

 the honor to recpiest that ])ermission may be granted to these gentle- 

 men to visit and remain on those islands during the current fishery sea- 

 sou. 



I have, etc., 



Julian Fauncefote. 



' For inclosuro see Senate Ex. Doc. No. 55, Fil'ty-secoud Congress, first session, 

 pp. 47, 48. 



