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and to recommend from time to time any suggestions as to needed 

 changes in the regulations of the Paris award, and desirable limita- 

 tions of the land catches on each of said islands; that within four 

 years they shall present a final report to their respective Governments, 

 and that, pending said report, a modus vivendi be entered into extend- 

 ing the award regulations along the line of the thirty-fifth degree of 

 north latitude from the American to the Asiatic shores. 

 I have the honor, etc., 



J. G. CARLISLE, Secretary. 

 The SECRETARY OF STATE. 



DEPARTMENT OF STATE, 



Washington, June 25, 1895. 



SIR: I have the honor to inclose for your information and considera- 

 tion a copy of a dispatch, No. 450, of the 14th instant, from the United 

 States ambassador at London, in regard to British legislation in refer- 

 ence to sealing in the North Pacific Ocean. 



You will observe that Mr. Bayard, for the purpose of better compar- 

 ing the pending bill with the act of 1893, which it is intended to replace, 

 incloses a copy of the act last mentioned and also of the merchant 

 shipping act of 1894, which is recited and referred to in the act now 

 proposed. 



I have the honor, etc., 



EICHARD OLNEY. 

 The SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY. 



[Inclosure.] 



EMBASSY OF THE UNITED STATES, 



London, June 14, 1895. 



SIR: I have to-day obtained and have now the honor to inclose herewith copy of 

 the proposed bill regulating sealing in Bering Sea and other parts of the Pacific 

 Ocean adjacent to Bering Sea. For the purpose of better comparing this bill with 

 the act of 1893 (which it is intended to replace), I also inclose herewith a copy of the 

 act last mentioned and also of the merchant shipping act of 1894, which is recited 

 and referred to in the act now proposed. 



Since obtaining these copies but little time is left before the mail closes for criti- 

 cism of the proposed modifications in the phraseology of the act of 1893, and I defer 

 comments thereon at this writing. 

 I have the honor, etc., 



T. F. BAYARD. 

 Hon. EDWIN F. UHL, 



Acting Secretary of State. 



JULY 3, 1895. 



SIB: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your communi- 

 cation of June 25, inclosing a copy of dispatch No. 450, of the 14th 

 ultimo, from the United States ambassador at London, in regard to pro- 

 posed British legislation with reference to sealing in the North Pacific 

 Ocean. I have further to acknowledge the inclosures therein, namely, 

 a copy of the said proposed act, seal fishery (North Pacific) act, and of 

 the merchants' shipping act of 1894. 



I have carefully read the same, and desire to call to your attention 

 the significant omission in said pending bill of the sixth clause of the 



