APPENDIX TO COUNTER-CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 409 



Teleriram. 



Treasury Department, Office of the Secretary, 



Washington, D. C, May 27, 1891. 



Yon are directed to sail at once, under Department orders of the 9th instant. 

 "Corwin" will follow in a few days, and will bring additional instructions. You 

 will consider the final orders given you when you sailed last year regarding your 

 duty in protecting seal life as being in force until you receive further instructions. 



(Signed) Charles Foster, Secretary, 



Captain W. C. Coulson, 



Commanding Bevenue-steamer "Bush," San Francisco, California, 



No. 3. 



Notice hy the British Agent, September 30, 1893. 



The Undersigned, Agent of Her Biitannic Majesty appointed to attend 

 the Tribunal of Arbitration convened uiid^r the provisions of the Treaty 

 conchided at Washington on the 29th February, 1892, between Her 

 Britannic Majesty and the United States, has the honour, by direction 

 of Her Majesty's Government, to give notice that he calls for the pro- 

 duction by the United States Government of the originals of all the 

 official records or archives alluded to in the foot-note to p. 41 of the 

 United States Case, that is to say: 



The documents cited in the Case of the United States relating to the 

 affairs of the Russian- American Company which belong to the official 

 records or archives of the territory which was ceded to tlie United States 

 by Kussia by the Treaty of 1867, as stated in the above-mentioned 

 foot-note. 



The Undersigned, &c. 



' (Signed) Charles H. Tupper, 



Agent of Her Britannic Majesty in this behalf. 



Ko. 4. 



Mr. Foster to Mr. Tupper. 



Washington, November 5, 1892. 



The Undersigned, Agent of the United States appointed to attend 

 the Tribunal of Arbitration convened under the provisions of the Treaty 

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

 United States and Her Britannic INIajesty, begs to state, in reply to the 

 Notice of the Agent of Her Britannic Majesty d«'livered to the Under- 

 signed on the 3()th December, 1892, which Notice calls for the produc- 

 tion by the United States Government of the originals of certain docu- 

 ments tlierein designated, that such originals will be produced at the 

 proper time in case the arbitrators so direct. 



The Undereigned begs also to state that such originals may at any 

 time be inspected at the Department of State, in Washington, by any 

 Agent whom the British Government may appoint for such purj)ose. 

 The Undersigned, &c. 



(Signed) John W. Foster. 



