202 CORRESPONDENCE, ETC., 



[Inclosure.] 



Form of notice referred to. 



MY LORD: I have been instructed by the President of the United 

 States to tender to Her Majesty's Government the sum of $5,500,000 

 in gold coin, this being the sum named by the two concurring mem- 

 bers of the Fisheries Commission (lately sitting at Halifax under 

 authority imparted thereto by the treaty of Washington) to be paid 

 by the Government of the United States to the Government of Her 

 Britannic Majesty. 



I am also instructed by the President to say that such payment is 

 made upon the ground that the Government of the United States de- 

 sires to place the maintenance of good faith in treaties and the 

 security and value of arbitration between nations above all questions 

 in its relations with Her Britannic Majesty's Government as with all 

 other governments. 



Under this motive the Government of the United States decides to 

 separate the question of withholding payment from the considerations 

 touching the obligation of this payment, which have been presented 

 to Her Majesty's Government in correspondence, and which it re- 

 serves and insists upon. 



I am, besides, instructed by the President to say that the Govern- 

 ment of the United States deems it of the greatest importance to the 

 common and friendly interests of the two governments in all future 

 treatment of any questions relating to the North American fisheries, 

 that Her Britannic Majesty's Government should be distinctly ad- 

 vised that the Government of the United States cannot accept the 

 result of the Halifax commission as furnishing any just measure of 

 the value of a participation by our citizens in the inshore fisheries of 

 the British provinces ; and it protests against the actual payment now 

 made being considered by Her Majesty's Government as in any sense 

 an acquiesence in such measure or as warranting any inference to 

 that effect. 



Mr. Evarts to Mr. Welsh. 



[Telegram.] 



WASHINGTON, November 9, 1878. 

 WELSH. 



Minister London. 



Telegraph me immediately full text of both notes omitting formal 

 parts and recitals from my despatches. Cipher unnecessary. 



EVARTS. 



Mr. Evarts to Mr. Welsh. 



No. 179.] DEPARTMENT or STATE, 



Washington, November 1%, 1878. 



SIR : Your cable dispatches of the 10th instant, containing the full 

 text of Lord Salisbury's two notes of the 7th instant, in reference 



