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Sea seizures, the Committee, on the recommendation of the Minister of Marine and 
Fisheries, advise that your Excellency be moved to forward a copy thereof to the 
Right Honourable the Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies, for submission 
to Her Majesty’s Government. 
All which is respectfully submitted. 
(Signed) JOHN J. MCGEE, 
Clerk, Privy Council. 
324 {Inclosure 3 in No. 236.] 
Resolutions adopted at a Meeting of the Citizens of Victoria, British Columbia, held 
August 31, 1889. 
(See Inclosure 2 in No. 231.) 
No. 237. 
Colonial Office to Foreign Office—(Received October 25.) 
DOWNING STREET, Uctober 24, 1889. 
Str: I am directed by Lord Knutsford to transmit to you, for the 
consideration of the Marquis of Salisbury, copies of four despatches, 
with accompanying papers, received from the Governor-General of 
Canada, relating to the seizure, by the United States Revenue-cutter 
“ Rush” in the Behring’s Sea, of the British sealing-vessels named in 
the margin.* 
I have, &e. 
(Signed) R. H. MEADE. 
{Inclosure 1 in No. 237.) 
Deputy Governor Sir W. Ritchie to Lord Knutsford. 
OrTrawa, September 20, 1889. 
My Lorn: I have the honour to inclose herewith, for your Lordship’s information, 
a copy of an approved Minute of the Privy Council, submitting the affidavit of the 
owner and master of the British schooner ‘“‘ Minnie,” who therein set forth the cir- 
cnmstances under which that vessel with her cargo of sealskins was seized in Behring’s 
Sea on the 15th July last by the United States Revenue-cutter ‘‘ Rush.” 
I have, &c. 
(Signed } W. J. RITCHIE. 
{Inclosure 2 in No. 237.] 
Report of a Committee of the Honourable the Privy Council, approved by his Excellency 
the Governor-General in Council, on the 14th September, 1889. 
On a Report, dated the 12th September, 1889, from the Minister of Marine and 
Fisheries, submitting the affidavit of the owner and master of the British schooner 
“Minnie,” which vessel, with her cargo of 421 sealskins, was seized in the Behring’s 
Sea on the 15th July last by the United States Revenue-cutter ‘‘Rush;” the Com- 
mittee recommend that your Excellency be moved to transmit a copy of this Minute, 
together with copy of the annexed aftidavit, to the Right Honourable the Principal 
Secretary of State for the Colonies, for submission to Her Majesty’s Government. 
All which is respectfully submitted for your Excellency’s approval. 
(Signed) JOHN J. MCGEE, 
Clerk, Privy Council. 
* “Minnie,” “Juanita,” “Pathfinder,” and ‘“ Lily.” 
