66 APPENDIX TO CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 
In this view of the case, I submit if room occupied by it, and which is urgently 
required for the use of the Civil Government, ought not to be vacated, and the guard 
itself transferred to the only point in the Territory where an emergency requiring 
the services of an armed force is likely to arise. There are buildings at Juneau 
belonging to the Navy Department large enough for the accommodation of a force 
twice its size, and I respectfully urge that the Senior Officer be ordered to make the 
transfer without unnecessary delay. 
49 No. 31. 
Colonial Office to Foreign Office.—( Received February 28.) 
DOWNING StREET, February 26, 1887. 
Str: I am directed by Secretary Sir H. Holland to acknowledge the 
receipt of your letter of the 14th instant, and to state that he concurs 
in the Marquis of Salisbury’s proposal to defer, temporarily, presenting 
to the United States the claims to compensation advanced by the Goy- 
ernment of Canada in respect of sailing-vessels recently seized in 
Behring’s sea. 
Iam, &c. 
(Signed) JOHN BRAMSTON. 
No. 32. 
Sir L. West to the Marquis of Salisbury.—( Received March 31.) 
WASHINGTON, March 18, 1887. 
My Lorp: I have the honour to inclose to your Lordship herewith 
copies of a letter addressed to the President by a firm in San Francisco, 
engaged in the seal fishery in Behring’s Sea, complaining of the preten- 
sion of the Alaska Seal Company to exclusive jurisdiction over waters 
3,000 miles long and 2,700 miles wide, and setting forth the grievances 
resulting therefrom. Allusion is made to the case of the American 
vessel ** Ocean Spray,” which went to the Island of St. Paul in 1876 and 
was seized for killing seals, and to the decision of the Judge of the Cir- 
cuit Court of Oregon, to the effect that the vessel had not violated the 
Act of Congress. The Treasury Circular of 1872 is also cited as prov- 
ing that American vessels had the right to enter Behring’s Sea, from 
which the Company sought to exclude them. 
I have, &e. 
(Signed) L. S. SACKVILLE WEST. 
{Inclosure in No. 82.] 
Extract from the ‘New York Herald” of March 17, 1887. 
[From our regular Correspondent.] 
“HERALD” BUREAU, CORNER FiIrTEENTH AND G STREETS, N. W. 
Washington, March 16, 1887. 
The following letter, addressed to the President, has just been received: 
“32, CLAY STREET, SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, 
‘€ March 2, 1887. 
“To his Excellency GROVER CLEVELAND, President of the United States: 
“Sir: Some respectable business men of the Pacific coast, owners of American 
vessels, have recently been assailed through the columns of the public press in a 
semi-official manner as ‘marauders’ and ‘ pirates’ on the ocean, their property seized 
and forfeited, their business jeopardized, and their sea ventures utterly destroyed, 
without any reasonable or justifiable excuse or cause. 
