284 APPENDIX TO CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 
In reply, I am to acquaint you, for the information of the Marquis 
of Salisbury, that Lord Knutsford, while accepting the construction put 
upon the Act and Proclamation in your letter, would have been glad 
if an opportunity could have been found of placing that construction 
oflicially on record. 
1 an, &ce. 
(Signed) R. H. MEADE. 
No. 196. 
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Colonial Office to Foreign Office.—(Received April 30.) 
DOWNING STREET, April 29, 1889. 
Srr: I am directed by the Secretary of State for the Colonies to 
transmit to you, with reference to your letter of the 18th instant, a 
copy of a despatch which he has addressed to the Governor-General of 
Canada inquiring as to the extent to which British Columbian vessels 
were engaged in seal hunting in Behring’s Sea prior to 1886. 
Lam, &e. 
(Signed) RoBERT G. W. HERBERT. 
{Inclosure in No. 196.] 
Lord Knutsford to Lord Stanley of Preston. 
DOWNING STREET, April 27, 1889. 
My Lorp: I have the honour to transmit to you, for communication to your Minis- 
ters, a copy of a letter from the Foreign Office requesting to be supplied with infor- 
mation as to the extent to which vessels belonging to British Columbia were engaged ~ 
in seai hunting in Beblring’s Sea prior to 1886. 
I shonld be obliged if your Ministers could supply the information desired by the 
Marquis of Salisbury at an early date. 
I have, &c. 
(Signed) KNUTSFORD. 
No. 197. 
Sir J. Pauncefote to the Marquis of Salisbury.—( Received May 13.) 
WASHINGTON, April 26, 1889. 
My Lorp: In reply to your Lordship’s despatch of the 13th instant, I 
have the honour to inform you that I learn on inquiry that the record of 
the appeal of the schooner “ W. P. Sayward” was filed on the 30th of 
October, 1888, but has not yet been printed. If it is not printed when 
the case is called the appeal will be dismissed. 
But it appears the case will not be reached for call for some three 
years, the business of the Supreme Court of the United States being, 
as [ am told, nearly or quite four years in arrear. 
Iam, We. 
; (Signed) JULIAN PAUNCEFOTE. 
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