248 APPENDIX TO CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 
No. 158. 
Colonial Office to Foreign Office.—( Received October 9.) 
DOWNING STREET, October 8, 1888, 
Str: With reference to your letter of the 2nd instant, I am directed 
by Lord Knutsford to transmit to you, to be laid before the Marquis of 
Salisbury, copies of telegraphic correspondence with the Governor- 
General of Canada respecting the bonding of the vessels seized last 
year in Behring’s Sea. 
Lord Knutsford would be glad if instructions could be given by tele- 
graph to Her Majesty’s Minister at Washington to propose to the 
United States Government the course recommended in Lord Stanley 
of Prestow’s telegram of the 6th instant. 
lam, We. 
(Signed) ROBERT G. W. HERBERT. 
[Inclosure 1 in No. 158.—Telegraphie.] 
Lord Knutsford to Lord Stanley of Preston. 
DOWNING STREET, October 4, 1888. 
With reference to Mr. Bayard’s note to Sir L. West of the 10th September relative 
to Behring’s Sea seizures, what answer should be returned? 
224 [Inclosure 2 in No, 158.—Telegraphic.] 
Lord Stanley of Preston to Lord Knutsford. 
OCTOBER 6, 1888. 
Recommend that the United States authorities be moved to authorize the reap- 
praisement of ‘‘Grace” and ‘‘Dolphin,” and in case of ‘‘Anna Beck” to accept pro- 
posed bonds of owner, subject to final settlement of matter. 
No. 159. 
The Marquis of Salisbury to Lord Sackville. 
{ Telegraphic. ] 
FOREIGN OFFICE, October 10, 1888. 
In reply to your despatch of the 13th ultimo, I request that you 
will move United States Government to authorize reappraisement. of 
“Grace” and “Dolphin,” and to accept proposed bond of owner, subject 
to final settlement of matter, in case of “Anna Beck.” 
No. 160. 
Foreign Office to Colonial Office. 
FOREIGN OFFICE, October 10, 1888. 
Str: Tam directed by the Marquis of Salisbury to acknowledge the 
receipt of your letter of the Sth instant, on the subject of the British 
vessels seized in Behring’s Sea. 
