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respectively to the matter of the award of the Halifax Commission, 

 and to the question of the rights of American fishermen in British 

 North American waters under the treaty of Washington, were duly 

 received, and both subjects now under consideration. The final de- 

 termination of the government in regard to the payment of the award 

 will be promptly communicated to you by telegraph quite probably 

 before this dispatch reaches you. 



I am, &c. WM. M. EVARTS. 



Mr. Evarts to Mr. Welsh. 



[Telegram.] 



WASHINGTON, November 16, 1878. 

 WELSH. 



Minister London. 



Call upon bankers confidentially and arrange for payment by you 

 of the amount of award for which fund is in their hands. Enjoin 

 them against any disclosure public or private. Your order on Bank- 

 ers will be sufficient authority to them. I send by separate telegram 

 instructions to you as to the manner of payment. Answer cipher. 



EVARTS. 



Mr. Evarts to Mr. Welsh. 



[Telegram.] 







WASHINGTON, November 21, 1878. 

 WELSH 



Minister L o n don. 



Telegraph me whether payment made with notice as instructed. 



EVARTS. 



Mr. Welsh to Mr. Evarts. 



No. 171.] LEGATION OF THE UNITED STATES, 



London, November , 1878. 

 (Received December 4.) 



SIR : Referring to my dispatch No. 169, of the 19th instant, I have 

 the honor to acquaint you that, agreeably to the appointment I had 

 made with Lord Salisbury, as indicated in that dispatch, I had an 

 interview with his lordship yesterday, at one o'clock in the afternoon, 

 at the foreign office. I handed to him my check on Messrs. Morton, 

 Rose & Co. for five million five hundred thousand dollars in gold 

 coin, in payment of the amount awarded by the Halifax Commis- 

 sion, and at the same time I delivered to him a notice signed by me, 

 the form of which was inclosed in your instruction No. 163. I found 

 that form to be identical with the copy you had sent me in cipher, 



