160 APPENDIX TO CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 
Memo.—If the full claim for the sealing season of 1886, as set out in Exhibit (B), be 
allowed, then the amount of this Exhibit, 2,955 dol. 98 c. will properly appear as a 
credit, and be deducted from the total of Exhibit (A), of which it forms part. 
141 No. 90. 
Colonial Office to Foreign Office.—(Received January 23.) 
DOWNING STREET, January 23, 1888. 
Sir: I am directed by the Secretary of State for the Colonies to 
transmit to you, to be laid before the Marquis of Salisbury, with refer- 
ence to previous correspondence, copies of two despatches from the 
Governor-General of Canada, forwarding statements of claims for 
losses sustained by certain British vessels engaged in the Behring’s 
Sea seal fishery. 
Iam to request that these claims may be presented to the United 
States Government should Lord Salisbury see no objection thereto. 
Tam to request that the sub-inclosures in these despatches, which 
are sent in original, may be returned. 
lam, &e. (Signed) JOHN BRAMSTON. 
{Inclosure 1 in No. 90.] 
The Marquis of Lansdowne to Sir H. Holland. 
GOVERNMENT HousgE, Ottawa, January 4, 1888. 
Sir: I have the honour to transmit to you, for presentation to the United States 
Government, a copy of an approved Minute of the Privy Council of Canada, sub- 
mitting a detailed statement of the claim of the owner and agent of the schooner 
“Favorite,” which vessel was, on the 2nd August, 1886, while sealing in Behring’s 
Sea, about 68 miles from land, ordered by the United States steamer ‘ Corwin,” 
under threat of seizure, to cease operations and leave the Behring’s Sea forthwith. 
You will observe that the circumstances connected with this claim differ from all 
the others, inasmuch as no actual seizure was effected, but my Minister of Marine 
and Fisheries considers that the claim for the loss of the fishing season is not unrea- 
sonable. 
Ihave, &c. (Signed) LANSDOWNE. 
{Inclosure 2 in No. 90.] 
Report of a Committee of the Honourable the Privy Council for Canada, approved by his 
Excellency the Governor-General in Council on the 30th December, 1887. 
On a Report dated the 19th December, 1887, from the Minister of Marine and Fish- 
eries, submitting a detailed statement of the claim of the owner and agent of the 
schooner ‘‘ Favorite,” which vessel was, on the 2nd day of August, 1886, while sealing 
in the Behring’s Sea, not far from where the schooner ‘‘ Onward” was seized the same 
day, viz., north latitude 54° 32’, west longitude 167° 55’, about 68 miles from land, 
ordered by the United States steamer ‘‘Corwin,” under threat of seizure, to cease 
operations and leave the Behring’s Sea forthwith. 
The Minister represents that the circumstances connected with this claim differ 
from all the others, inasmuch as no actual seizure was effected, but the Minister 
believes the claim for loss of the fishing season to be reasonable. 
The Minister recommends that it be forwarded to Her Majesty’s Government for 
presentation to the Government of the United States. 
The Committee advise that your Excellency be moved to forward the claim herein 
mentioned to the Right Honourable the Secretary of State for the Colonies, for trans- 
mission to the United States Government. 
All which is respectfully submitted for your Excellency’s approval. 
(Signed) JOHN J. MCGER, 
Clerk, Privy Council. 
