MODUS VIVENDI OF 1891 AND ARBITEATION. 323 



Sir Julian Paunvcfote to Mr. Wharton. 



British Legation, 



Washington, July 6, 1891. 



Sir : I have tlie lionor to transmit to you lierewitli, in accordance with 

 instructions which I have received from the Marquis of Salisbury, cop- 

 ies of an act of Parliament enabling Her Majesty the Queen to pro- 

 hibit bv order in council the catching of seals by British shijjs in Behring 

 Sea. 



I likewise inclose copies of an order of Her Majesty in council issued 

 in virtue of the powers given by thc^ said act and prohibiting the catch- 

 ing of seals by British ships in Behring Sea, within the limits defined 

 therein, from the 24:th of June last until the 1st of May, 1892. 

 I have, etc., 



Julian Pauncefote. 



ORDER IN COUNCIL. 

 [Inclosure 1 iu Sir Julian Pauncefote's note.] 



At tlie court at Wiudsor, the 23d day of June, 1891. Preseut, the Queen's Most 

 Excellent Majesty, Lord President, Eaii of Limerick, Marquis of Salisbury, and 

 Lord Arthur Hill. 



Whereas by the seal fishery (Behriuti' Sea) act, 1891, it is enacted that Her Majesty 

 the Queen may by order in council prohibit the catching of seals by British ships in 

 Behring Sea or such part thereof as is defined by the said order, clui'ing the period 

 limited by the order: 



And whereas the expression " Behring's Sea" in the said act means the seas known 

 as Behring Sea within the limits described in an order under the said act. 



Now therefore, Her Majesty, in virtue of the powers vested in her by the said re- 

 cited act, by and with tlie advice of her privy council, is hereby pleased to order, 

 and it is hereby ordered, as follows: 



(1) This order may be cited as the seal fishery (Behring Sea) order in council, 

 1891. 



(2) From and after the 24th day of June, 1891, until the 1st day of May, 1892, the 

 catching of seals by British ships in Behring Sea as hereinafter defined is hereby 

 prohibited. 



(3) For the purposes of the said recited act and of this order the expression "Behr- 

 ing's Sea" means so mucli of that part of the Pacific Ocean known as Behring Sea as 

 lies between the parallel of 65'^ 30' nortli latitude and the chain of the Aleutian 

 Islands, and eastward of the following line of demarcation, that is to say, a line com- 

 mencing at a point in Behring Straits on the said parallel of 65*^ 30' north latitude, 

 at its intersection by the nmridian Avhich passes midway between the islands of 

 Krusensternor Ignalook and the island of Eatmanoff or Noonarbook ; ajid proceed- 

 ing thence in a course nearly southwest through Behring Straits and the seas known 

 as Behring Sea, so as to pass midway between the northw^est point of the island of 

 St. Lawrence and the southeast point of Cape Choukotski to the meridian of 172" 

 west longitude; thence from the intersection of that meridian in a soutlnvesterly 

 direction, so as to pass midway between the island of Attou and the Coiij)er Island 

 of the Kormanderski couplet or group in the North Pacific Ocean, to the meridian of 

 IDS'- Avest longitude. 



C. L. Peel. 



SEAL FISHEKT (BEHKING'S SEA) ACT, 1801. 

 [Euclosuro 2 iu Sir Julian Pauncefote's note] 



54 Vict.] Chapter 19. 



AN ACT to enable Her Majesty, by order in council, to make special provision for probibiting the 

 catching of seals in Behring's Sea by HerMajesty's subjects during the period named in the order, 

 (lltb June, 1891.) 



Be it enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and 

 consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons, in this present Parlia- 

 ment assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows: 



I. (1) Her Majesty the Queen may, by order in council, prohibit the catchinjj of 



