256 APPENDIX TO CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 
No. 173. 
Foreign Office to Colonial Office. 
FOREIGN OFFICE, December 7, 1888, 
Sir: In reply to your letter of the 5rd instant, | am directed by the 
Marquis of Salisbury to state to you, for the information of Secretary 
Lord Knutsford, that no reply has been returned by the United States 
Government to the request that they would authorize the reappraise- 
ment of the British vessels “Grace” and * Dolphin” seized in Behring’s 
Sea. 
Mr. Herbert, who is in charge of Her Majesty’s Legation at Wash- 
ington, has reported in a telegram, dated the 5th instant, that he had 
on that d: vy again asked for an answer from the United States Gov- 
ernment. 
Tam, We. 
(Signed) JULIAN PAUNCEFOTE. 
No. 174. 
Mr. Ilerbert to the Marquis of Salisbury.—( Received December 11.) 
WASHINGTON, November 30, 1888. 
My Lorp: I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your 
Lordship’s telegram of the 22nd, and to state that Mr. Bayard, 
231 in reply to my communication, that the owners of the “Ada” did 
not object to the original appraisement, has informed me that 
the Attorney-General has been made acquainted with their decision. 
I have, We. 
For M. H. HERBERT’, 
(Signed) ARTHUR HERBERT. 
No. 175. 
Mr. Herbert to the Marquis of Salisbury.—( Received December 24.) 
WASHINGTON, December 12, 1888. 
My LorD: On the receipt of your Lordship’s telegram of the 5th 
instant, | immediately wrote to Mr. Bayard pressing for areply to Lord 
Sackville’ s note of the 12th October on the subject of the re-appraise- 
ment of the British sealers seized in Behring’s Sea in 1887, and I have 
now received a note from hin, copy of which with its inclosures [ inclose 
herewith, in which he states that he has been informed by the Attorney- 
General that orders were given on the 14th ultimo for the sale of the 
vessels in question, but that he has not yet heard whether the sale 
has been effected or not. As soon, however, as he is informed by the 
Department of Justice he will duly advise me as to what has taken 
place. 
' [have sent a copy of Mr. Bayard’s note to the Governor-General of 
Canada. 
I have, &e, 
(Signed) MICHAEL H. HERBERT. 
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