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[Sub-lnclosure.] 



Report of a committee of the honorable the privy council for Canada, 

 approved by his excellency the governor-general in council, on the 

 18th November, 1886. 



The committee of the privy council are in receipt of a telegram 

 from the right honorable the secretary of state for the colonies, in 

 the words: 



" United States Government protest against proceedings of Cana- 

 dian authorities in the case of Pearl Nelson and Everett Steele, said 

 to have put into Arichat and Shelburne, respectively, for purposes 

 sanctioned by convention. Particulars by post. Send report soon as 

 possible." 



The minister of marine and fisheries, to whom the telegram was 

 referred, submits that the schooner Everett Steele appears from the 

 report of the collector of customs at Shelburne to have been at that 

 port on the 25th March last, and sailed without reporting. On her 

 return to Shelburne in September she was detained by the collector 

 of customs for an infraction of the customs law. 



The captain having assured the collector that he had been misled 

 by the deputy harbor-master, who informed him his vessel could re- 

 main in port for twenty-four hours without entering, and that he 

 had no intention of violating the customs regulations, this statement 

 was reported to the minister of customs at Ottawa, when the vessel 

 was at once allowed to proceed to sea, and that no evidence is given 

 of any desire or intention of denying to the captain of the Everett 

 Steele any treaty privileges he. was entitled to enjoy. 



The committee, concurring in the above, respectfully recommend 

 fchat your excellency be moved to transmit a copy of this minute, if 

 approved, to the right honorable the secretary of state for the colonies. 



All of which is respectfully submitted for your excellency's ap- 

 proval. 



JOHN J. McGflE, 



Clerk Privy Council. 



[Inclosure No. 2.] 



The Marquis of Lansdowne to Mr. Stanhope. 



GOVERNMENT HOUSE, 

 Ottawa, November 29, 1886. 



SIR : With reference to your telegraphic message of the 6th instant, 

 asking to be furnished with a report in the case of the Pearl Nelson 

 and Everett Steele, I have the honor to transmit herewith a copy of 

 an approved minute of the privy council of Canada, embodying a 

 report of my minister of marine and fisheries, to which is appended 

 a copy of the correspondence which has passed between the commis- 

 sioner of customs for Canada and the United States consul-general 

 at Halifax relating to the case of the American schooner Pearl Nelson. 

 I have, etc., 



LANSDOWNE. 



