APPENDIX TO CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. ates 57 
No. 27. 
Sir L. West to the Marquis of Salisbury.—( Received by telegraph, Feb- 
ruary 4.) 
WASHINGTON, February 4, 1887. 
My Lorp: Having reason to believe that the President was about 
to take some action in the case of the seizure of British vessels in Beh- 
ring’s Sea, Laddressed a note, copy of which is inclosed, to the Secretary 
of State, after the receipt of your Lordship’s telegram of the 27th ultimo, 
inquiring whether the United States Government had received the 
information and papers connected therewith; and I now havethe honour 
to inclose copy of a note which I have received in reply thereto, stating 
that the papers in question were expected within a fortnight, and 
40 informing me that in the meanwhile, without conclusion at this 
time of any questions involved, orders have been issued by the 
President for the discontinuance of all pending proceedings, the dis- 
charge of the vessels referred to, and the release of all persons under 
arrest in connection therewith, which information I telegraphed to your 
Lordship this day. 
Since the receipt of the Earl of Iddesleigh’s telegram of the 6th 
December last I have from time to time endeavoured to obtain a 
decision in the sense of the note now addressed to me, which, as far as 
it goes, will, I trust, be considered by Her Majesty’s Government as a 
satisfactory result. 
In accordance with the instruction contained in the above-mentioned 
telegram, I have communicated this result to the Governor-General of 
Canada. 
I have, ce. 
(Signed) L. S. SACKVILLE WEST. 
{Inclosure 1 in No. 27.] 
Sir L. West to Mr. Bayard. 
WASHINGTON, February 2, 1886. 
Sir: Lhave the honour to inform you that, under date of the 27th ultimo, the 
Marquis of Salisbury instructs me to inquire whether the information and papers 
relative to the seizure of the British schooners ‘‘Carolina,” ‘‘Onward,” and 
‘Thornton ” have reached the United States Government. 
I have, &c. 
(Signed) L. 8. SACKVILLE WEST, 
{Inclosure 2 in No. 27.] 
Mr. Bayard to Sir L. West. 
DEPARTMENT OF STATE, Washington, February 3, 1887. 
Sir: I beg to acknowledge your note of yesterday’s date, received to-day. Upon its 
receipt I made instant application to my colleague the Attorney-General in relation 
to the record of the judicial proceedings in the cases of the three British vessels 
arrested in August last in Behring’s Sea for violation of the United States Laws 
regulating the Alaskan seal fisheries. 
I am iniormed that the documents in question left Sitka on the 26th January, and 
may be expected to arrive at Port Townsend, in Washington Territory, about the 
7th instant, so that the papers, in the usual course of mail, should be received by me 
within a fortnight. 
