APPENDIX ro COUNTER-CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 385 



No. 2. 

 Mr. Foster to Mr. Tupper. 



Washington, Hovemher 5, 1893. 



The Undersigned, Agent of the United States, appointed to attend the 

 Tribunal of Arbitration convened under tlie provisions of the Treaty 

 concluded at Washington, the 29th February, 1892, between the United 

 States and Her Britannic Majesty, herewith makes the following reply 

 to a Notice calling for the production of copies of certain documents, 

 which Notice was delivered to him by the Agent of Her Britannic 

 Majesty on the 30th day of September, 1892 : 



In regard to paragraph numbered 1 of said Notice: 



The Undersigned does not lurnish copies of the documents therein 

 referred to, for the reason that all such documents are included in those 

 referred to in the foot-note to p. 41 of the Case of the United States, 

 and these appear in vol. i of the Appendix of said Case, following p. 593. 



In regard to paragraph numbered 2 of said Notice: 



The Undersigned herewith furnishes photo-lithographic facsimiles of 

 all documents therein referred to not already included in those which 

 appear in vol. 1 of the Appendix of the Case of the United States, follow- 

 ing p. 593. 



In regard to paragraph numbered 3 of said Notice: 



The English version of the "explanatory note" therein referred to 

 appears in the A])peudix of the Case of the United States, as indicated 

 in the foot-note to p. 55 of said Case; but for the more accurate infor- 

 mation of the Agent of Her Britannic Majesty, a copy of the original 

 text of said note is herewith furnished. 



In regard to paragraph 4 of said Notice: 



The Undersigned herewith luruishes copies of the instructions 

 therein referred to, notwithstanding he is clearly of the opinion that 

 they have been neither specihed nor alluded to in the Case of the 

 60 United States. The documents in which these instructions are 

 contained include other matters as well, which, being irrelevant 

 to the present inquiry and somewhat voluminous, have been omitted. 

 Should, however, the British Agent feel that he has been prejudiced by 

 any such omission, the latter will, upon demand, be supplied in every 

 case. 



The Undersigned improves the occasion to renew to Mr. Tupper the 

 assurance of his highest consideration. 



(Signed) John W. Foster, 



Agent of the United States, 



[Incloaure 1 in No. 2. — Translation.] 



1. — Copii of a Letter from Privy Councillor Speranski/, Governor- General of Siberia, to 

 Count Nesselrode, Secretary of State, dattd Irkutsk, February 1, 1S20. No. 2S. 



Just before this messenger was dispatched I received, through the Tobolsk Post- 

 office, probably from St. Petex'sburgh, a packet, iu which I fonud a letter addressed to 

 your Excellency, several other private letters, an Agreement concluded by the Gov- 

 ernor of Kamtshatka with the Englishman Pigott regarding the whale fishery on the 

 shores of Eastern Siberia, and an envelope which, from its general appearance, and 

 from the fact of its being addressed to the Governor-General of Siberia, appeared 

 to contain an official comrannicatiou, but in which I found a private letter from 

 M. Ricord to Ivan Borisovitch Pestel. 



I have the honour to transmit all these papers to your Excellency, and I beg to be 

 allowed to make the following observations with regard to them: 



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