APPENDIX TO CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. Zal 
[Inclosure 1 in No. 147.] 
Lord Stanley of Preston to Lord Knutsford. 
CITADEL, QUEBEC, August 3, 1888. 
My Lorp: With reference to your Lordship’s despatch of the 8th March last, trans- 
mitting a copy of a letter from the Foreign Office, with a note from the American 
Minister in London, submitting a proposal “for regulating the seal fishing in Behrins’s 
Sea, I have the honour to forward herewith a copy of an approved Minute of the Pri ivy 
Council concurring in a Report of my Minister of Marine and Fisheries protesting 
against this pr oposal. 
Ihave, &c. 
(Signed) STANLEY OF PRESTON. 
[Inclosure 2in No. 147.] 
Report of a Committee of the Honourable Privy Council for Canada, approved by his 
Excellency the Governor-General in Council on the 14th July, 1888. 
The Committee of the Privy Council have had under consideration a despatch, 
dated the 8th March, 1888, from the Right Honourable the Secretary of State for the 
Culonies, transmitting a copy of a letter from the Foreign Office, with a note 
213 +=from the United States Minister in London, submitting a proposal from Mr. 
Secretary Bayard for the establishment of a close season for the seal fishing in 
and near Behring’s Sea, to extend from the 15th April to the Ist November of each 
year, and to be operative in the waters lying north of latitude 50° north and between 
longitude 160° west and 170° east from Greenwich, in which despatch Lord Knuts- 
tord asks to be favoured with any observations which the Canadian Government may 
have to offer on the subject. 
The Minister of Marine and Fisheries, to whom the said despatch and inclosures 
were referred, submits a Report thereon, dated the 7th July, 1888, protesting against 
Mr. Bayvard’s proposal as an unjust and unnecessary interference with, or rather 
prohibition of, rights so long enjoyed to a lawful and remunerative occupation upon 
the high seas. 
The Committee concur in the said Report, and advise that a copy thereof, and of 
this Minute, if approved, be transmitted by your Excellency to the Right Honourable 
the Secretary of State for the Colonies. 
(Signed) JOHN J. MCGEE, 
Clerk, Privy Council, Canada. 
[Inclosure 3 in No. 147.] 
Minute. 
DEPARTMENT OF MARINE AND FISHERIES, CANADA, 
Ottawa, July 7, 1888, 
The Undersigned has the honour to submit, for the consideration of the Governor- 
General in Council, the following observations in reply to a despatch from Lord 
Knutsford to Lord Lansdowne, dated the 8th Mare h, 1888, and inclosing a proposal 
from Mr. Secretary Bayard for ‘the establishment of a close’ season for the seal fishing 
in and near Behring’s Sea, to extend from the 15th April to the Ist November of each 
year, and to be operative i in the waters lying north of latitude 50° north and between 
longitude 160° west and longitude 170° east from Greenwich. 
Before entering upon the discussion of this proposition, the Minister desires to call 
attention to a sentence in a letter from Lord Salisbury to Sir L. S. West, dated the 
22nd February, 1888, and forming a part of the above-mentioned despatch, in which 
Lord Salisbury says: 
“The United States Minister called to-day at the Foreign Office and spoke to me 
about the question of the fur seals in Behring’s Sea. He said that the difficulties in 
regard to the seal fisheries in that sea were “mainly connected with the question of 
the close time, and that no attempt had bee gnade by the authorities of the United 
States to stop ‘the fishing there of any vesselg ut the time when it was legitimate.” 
This clearly implies that Lord Salisbury had been led by the United “States Min- 
ister to believe that there is a fixed close and open season for the killing of seals in 
Behring’s Sea which is common to all vessels of all nationalities, and that during the 
open season these may legitimately and without molestation pursue the business of 
catching seals. 
The facts of the case appear to be that within the limits of the Territory of Alaska, 
which by the United States contention iucludes the waters of Behring’s Sea as fax 
