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No. 188. 
Colonial Office to Foreign Office.—( Received April 11.) 
DOWNING STREET, April 10, 1889. 
Sir: I am directed by Lord Knutsford to acknowledge the receipt 
of your letters of the 25th ultimo and 3rd instant, inclosing copies of 
despatches from Her Majesty’s Chargé d’ Affaires at Washington on the 
Behring’s Sea question.* 
The Proclamation recently issued by President Harrison with regard 
to the seal fishing in Behring’s Sea appears to raise an important ques- 
tion as to the meaning which is attached by the United States Gov- 
ernment to the words ‘‘all the dominion of the United States in the 
water of Behring’s Sea,” which is the term used in the Act upon which 
the Proclamation is founded. 
Bearing in mind the interpretation which the United States Govern- 
ment has hitherto placed upon the dominion of the United States in 
Behring’s Sea, it seems to his Lordship worthy of consideration whether 
some intimation, such as that suggested in the letter from this Depart- 
ment of the 26th March, should not be conveyed to the United States. 
Iam, We. 
(Signed) ROBERT G. W. HERBERT. 
No. 189. 
Colonial Office to Foreign Office.—( Received April 11.) 
DOWNING STREET, April 10, 1889. 
Str: I am directed by Lord Knutsford to acknowledge the receipt of 
your letter of the 4th instant, transmitting, for his Lordship’s informa- 
tion, a copy of a despatch from Her Majesty’s Chargé d’Affaires at 
Washington, on the question of the sale of three British vessels seized 
by the United States authorities in 1887, when engaged in seal fishing 
in the Behring’s Sea. 
2. In reply, his Lordship desires me to state, for the information of 
the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, that he has no observations 
to offer on the despatch referred to. 
3. Lord Knutsford would be glad to learn what is the present posi- 
tion of the appeal in the case of the steam-ship ““W. P. Sayward.” 
Iam, We. 
(Signed) JOHN BRAMSTON. 
No. 190. 
Forcign Office to Colonial Office. 
FOREIGN OFFICE, April 11, 1889. 
Str: I transmit herewith copies of despatches from Her Majesty’s 
Chargé d’Affaires at Washington, as inarked in the margin,t} relative 
to the Act of the United States Congress of the 2nd March, 1889, pro- 
*Nos. 179 and 183. +Nos. 179, 186, and 187. 
