250 APPENDIX TO CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 
viding for the protection of the salmon fisheries of Alaska, and the 
Proclamation which has been issued by the President of the United 
States in pursuance of its provisions. 
The Act declares that section 1956 of the Revised Statutes of the 
United States “ineludes and applies to all the dominion of the United 
States in the waters of Behring’s Sea,” and directs the President, ‘ at 
a timely season in each year to issue his Proclamation, w arning all 
persons against entering the said waters for the purpose of violating 
the provisions of the said section,” We. 
That section (1956) enacts that “no person shall kill any otter, mink, 
marten, sable, or fur seal, or other fur-bearing animal within the 
252 ~—slimits of Alaska territory, or in the waters thereof;” and the 
President, after reciting the section in question and the section 
of the Salmon Act in which it is referred to, proceeds by his Proclama- 
tion to “warn all persons against entering the waters of Behring’s 
Sea within the domain of the United States “for the purpose of violat- 
ing the provisions of the said section 1956, Revised Statutes,” &e. 
I am directed by Marquis of Salisbury to request that, in laying the 
inclosed papers before Lord Knutsford, you will point out to his Lord- 
ship that the Act and Proclamation, taken strictly, do no more than 
assert the rights of the United States in their territorial waters. In 
fact, the discussions in tne Senate and the House of Representatives, 
recorded in Inclosure 4 to Mr. Edwardes’ despatch of the 25th ultimo, 
show that the majority in the Senate desired to avoid committing them- 
selves by any words in the Act to an interpretation of the Treaty rights 
of the United States in Behring’s Sea, and that the House of Repre- 
sentatives acquiesced in that intention. 
lam, We. 
. (Signed) P. CURRIE, 
No. 191. 
The Marquis of Salisbury to Sir J. Pauncefote. 
FOREIGN OFFICE, April 13, 1889. 
Sir: With reference to Mr. Edwardes’ despatch of the 15th ultimo, 
I have to request that you will report to me, for the information of the 
Secretary of State for the Colonies, what is the present position of the 
appeal in the case of the steam-ship “W. P. Sayward,” last reported on 
in Sir L. West’s despatch of the 15th September, 1888. 
Iam, Xe. 
(Signed) SALISBURY. 
No. 192. 
Mr. Edwardes to the Marquis of Salisbury.—(Received April 16.) 
WASHINGTON, April 2, 1889. 
My Lorp: Although the Bill introduced by Mr. Dunn into the House 
of Representatives to amend section 1963 of the Revised Statutes, and 
to provide for the better protection of the fur seals and salmon fisheries 
of Alaska, and for other purposes, did not become law, I think it right 
