410 APPENDIX TO COUNTER-CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 



81 No. 5. 



Notice by the British Agent. 



October 3, 1892. 



The Undersigned, Agent of Her Britannic Majesty appointed to 

 attend the Tribunal of Arbitration convened under the provisions of 

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

 Her Britannic Majesty and the United States, has the honour, by direc- 

 tion of Her Majesty's Government, to give notice that he applies for 

 the production by the Agent of the United States of copy of the deci- 

 sion of the Treasury Department, and of the letter of tlie 4th April, 

 1881, referred to at p. 81 of the Case of the United States, as follows: 



"This decision was confirmed by tlie Treasury Department on the 

 4th April, 1881, and again on the 0th March, 1880. On this last occa- 

 sion the Secretary of the Treasury wrote as follows: 'The attention of 

 your predecessor in office M'as called to this subject on the 4th April, 

 1881. This communication is addressed to you, inasmuch as it is under- 

 stood that certain parties at your port contemplate the fitting out of 

 expeditions to kill fur-seals in these waters. You are requested to give 

 due publicity to such letters, in order that such parties may be informed 

 of the construction placed by this Department upon the provision of 

 Law referred to.' " 



The undersigned, &c. 



(Signed) Charles H. Tupper, • 



Agent of Her Britannic Majesty in this behalf, 



To General the Hon. John W. Foster, 



Agent of the United States, &g. 



Kg. 6. 



Notice by the British Agent. 



October 3, 1892. 

 The Undersigned, Agent of Her Britannic Majesty, appointed to 

 attend the Tribunal of Arbitration convened under the provisions of 

 the Treaty ccmcluded at Washington on the 29th February, between 

 Her Britannic Majesty and the United States, has the honour, by direc- 

 tion of Her JNIajesty's Government, to give notice that he applies for 

 the production by the Agent of the United States of copies of the fol- 

 lowing documents, that is to say: 



1. The Report of Treasury Agent Goflf for the year 1889, mentioned 

 on p. 153 and p. 343 of the Case of the United States. 



2. The letters and documents mentioned in the correspondence quoted 

 at pp. 48 to 90 of the United States Case, Appeiulix, vol. i, and espe- 

 cially the following, namely: 



(a.) Page 51. The Eeport of the Board of Administration of the Eus- 

 sian-American Company, dated the 14th ISTovember, 1819; 



(6.) Page 55. The "communication from the Minister of Marine," 

 referred to in the last paragraph of the letter from the Board of 

 Administration of the Eussiau-American Company to Captain M. I. 

 IVluravief, of the Imperial Navy, Chief Manager of the Eussiau-Amer- 

 ican Colonies, written from St. Petersburgh, the 23rd April, 1820 j 



