270 APPENDIX TO CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 
States have had no official or other notice of the existence of such establishments, 
and have not, although an application has long since been made for them, ever been 
furnished by the Russian Government with the Regulations, consequent on the expira- 
tion of the LVth Article of the Convention , proposed to be applied to American vessels 
resorting to Russian Settlements on that ‘coast. 
On the other hand, should there prove to be no Russian establishments at the places 
mentioned, this outrage on the ‘ Loriot” assumes a still graver aspect. It is a vio- 
lation of the right of ‘the citizens of the United States, immemorially exercised and 
secured to them as well by the law of nations as by the stipulations of the Ist Article 
of the Convention of 1821, to fish in those seas, and to resort to the coast for the 
prosecution of their lawful commerce upon points not already occupied. As such, 
it is the President’s wish that you should remonstrate, in an earnest but respectful 
tone against this groundless assumption of the Russian Fur Company, and claim 
from His Imperial Majesty’ s Government for the owners of the brig ‘‘ Loriot,” for their 
losses and for the damages they have sustained, such indemnification as may, ou an 
investigation of the case, be found to be justly due to them. 
Tam, &c. 
(Signed) JoUN ForsyTu. 
Mr. Forsyth to Mr. Dallas, 
[Extract.] 
DEPARTMENT OF STATE, Washington, November 3, 1837. 
With reference to your remarks regarding the proper construction of the Gaanene 
tion of April 1824 between the United States aud Russia, the Ist Article of that 
instrument is only declaratory of a right which the parties to it possessed, under the 
law of nations, without Conventional stipulations, to wit, to navigate and fish in the 
ocean upon an unoccupied coast, and to resort to such coast tor the purpose of trading 
with the natives. 
No. 186. 
Mr, Edwardes to the Marquis of Salisbury.—( Reccived April 6.) 
WASHINGTON, March 23, 1889. 
My Lorp: With reference to my despatch of the 18th instant, to my 
telegram of the 23rd instant, to your Lordship’s telegram of the 23rd 
instant, and to my telegram of the same day, I have the honour to 
report that the Proclamation issued on the afternoon of the 22nd instant 
by the President, declaring that all persons entering the waters of 
Behring’s Sea within the domain of the United States for the 
243 purpose of killing fur-bearing animals, or of violating Regula- 
tions to be made with regard to the salmon fisheries of Alaska, 
shall be arrested and their vessels, &e., seized, has been issued on the 
power given to him by the “Act to provide tor the protection of the 
salmon fisheries in Alaska.” 
Copy of this Act was inclosed in my despatch of the 18th instant, 
and was one of the last Acts which was passed in the closing hours of 
Congress. 
The Bill originated in the Senate where it was passed, after having 
been reduced to sections 1 and 2 of the present Act, and in that con- 
dition sent to the House. 
At that time there was before the House another Bill of similar 
import, which had been referred back from the Committee of Merchant 
Marine and Fisheries, and was waiting to be reached. 
When the Senate Bill came up before the House section 3 was added 
to it as an amendment, which amendment the House intended to take 
