APPENDIX TO CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 283 
No. 194. 
Foreign Office to Colonial Office. 
[Extract.] 
FOREIGN OFFICE, April 18, 1889. 
It will be seen, on reference to the correspondence respecting the 
seizure of Canadian schooners by United States Revenue cutters in 
Behring’s Sea, that Mr. Bayard, in a letter addressed to Her Majesty’s 
Minister at Washington on the 12th April, 1887,* a copy of which 
accompanied the letter from this Department of the 5th May of that 
year, stated that “the laws of the United States regula.ing the killing 
of fur seals have been in force for upwards of seventeen years, and, 
prior to the seizure of last summer, but a single infraction is known to 
have occurred, and that was promptly punished.” 
On the other hand, Lord Lansdowne, in his despatch of the 27th 
November, 1886,7 of which a copy was forwarded in your letter of the 
4th January, 1887, states: ‘“‘This is, as far as I have been able to ascer- 
tain, the first occasion upon which claims of the kind now advanced 
have been enforced. Sealing-vessels from British Columbia have for 
some years past frequented the waters of Behring’s Sea without moles- 
tation.” 
Lord Salisbury observes, however, that, in the Minute by the Depart- 
ment of Marine and Fisheries, inelosed in Lord Stanley’s despatch of 
the 5rd August, 1888 (of which a copy was forwarded in your letter of 
the 18th of that month), it is stated that, by the proposed arrangement 
for a close time, “ Canada would lose the enjoyment of a lucrative right 
long possessed, and this loss would be fatal to the prosecution of the 
seal industry.” 
In Lord Salisbury’s opinion it would be interesting, with a view to 
possible further negotiations, to know for how long, and to what extent, 
Canadian vessels have been in the habit of killing seals in the waters 
of Behring’s Sea before 1886. 
I am to request that, in laying this letter before Secretary Lord 
Knutsford, yeu will move him to endeavour to obtain such statistical 
information bearing on these points as can be furnished by the Cana- 
dian Government. 
No. 195. 
Colonial Office to Foreign Office.—(Received April 20.) 
DOWNING STREET, April 20, 1889. 
Str: I am directed by Lord Knutsford to acknowledge the receipt of 
your letter of the 11th instant, transmitting copies of despatches from 
Her Majesty’s Chargé d’Affaires at Washington relative to the Act of 
the United States Congress of the 2nd March, 1889, providing 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. 
*See Inclosure 2 in No. 37. +See Inclosure 1 in No. 22, 
