322 DIPLOMATIC COKRESPONDENCE. 



Sir Julian Paimccfote to Mr. Wharton. 



British Legation, 



Was]iington, June 27^ 180i. 

 Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge tlie receipt of your note of the 

 25th instant in rehition to the proposed Behring Sea Arbitration, and to 

 inform you that I transmitted a copy of it to the Marquis of Salisbury 

 by the mail of the liCth. 

 I have, etc., 



Julian Pauncefote. 



Mr. WJiarton to Sir Julian Pauncefote. 



Department of State, 



Wasliinr/ton, July 3, 1891. 

 Sir: Her Majesty's Government having api:>ointed two agents to 

 visit the Behring Sea under the agreement between that Government 

 and the United States of date June 15, 18!)1, and the President being 

 about to designate two persons to Aisit the Behring Sea for the purpose 

 of examining all questions connected with seal life in that sea and the 

 adjacent waters, I have the honor to propose that arrangements be 

 made to have these agents of the resi)ecti\'e Governments go together, 

 so that they may make their observations conjointly. 



AAvaitiug such communication as Her Majesty's Government may 

 desire to make uiiou the subject, 

 I have, etc., 



William F. Wharton. 



Sir Julian Fauncefotc to Mr. WJiarton. 



British Legation, 



Washington, Juiij 6, 1891. 

 Sir : I have the honor to acknowledge the receii)t of your note of the 

 3d, in.stant, in which you propose that arrangements be made toenal)le 

 the agents appointed by our res})ectiv^e Governments to A' isit the Behring" 

 Sea for the purpose of examining into seal life to go together, so that 

 they may make their observations conjointly. 



I at once commuuicated this proposal to the jMarcpiis of Salisbury by 

 telegram, and I have received a reply from his lordshi}) to the ett'ect 

 that a ship has already been chartered to tal^e the British Commission- 

 ers to the seal islands, and that the engagenu'nt could not now be can- 

 celed, but that the British Commissioners will be instructed, when they 

 arrive in the islands, to cooperate as nuich as possible with the Commis- 

 sioners to be appointed by your Government for the purposes of the 

 inquiry. 



I have, etc., 



Julian Pauncefoie. 



