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the indiscriminate slaughter of female seals in the waters of Behring’s 
Sea, and I am to say that your representations on the subject will 
receive careful attention. 
Lord Salisbury will be glad to receive any statistical evidence which 
you may be able to furnish as to the extent to which the number and 
quality of the catch of male seals has been affected of late years by 
the increased slaughter of female seals in the open sea, and any other 
information which might be of assistance in considering the remedial 
measures which it may be desirable to adopt. 
His Lordship presumes that you would have no objection to the 
eventual publication of your letter under reply, and of any subsequent 
communications not marked ‘‘ Confidential.” 
1 have, &c. 
(Signed) T. H. SANDERSON. 
No. 248. 
Sir C. Lampson and Co. to Foreign Office.—( Received November 15.) 
64, QUEEN STREET, London, November 14, 1889. 
DEAR Sir: We have to acknowledge receipt of your valued favour 
of the 13th instant, and beg to thank you for having taken the matter 
into consideration. 
We are now collecting all the information we can with reference to 
the details Lord Salisbury is anxious to obtain, and when we have 
completed our Statement, will forward it to you. 
We are quite willing to have any of our letters used as Lord Salis- 
bury may see fit. ; 
Yours, &c. 
(Signed) C. M. LAMPSON AND Co. 
No. 249. 
Colonial Office to Foreign Office.—(Received December 1.) 
DOWNING SLREET, November 30, 1889. 
Str: With reference to the letter from this Department of the 9th 
August last, I am directed by Lord Knutsford to transmit to you, to be 
laid before the Marquis of Salisbury, a copy of a despatch from the 
Deputy Governor of Canada, inclosing an important Minute of the 
Dominion Privy Council on the subject of the proposed close time for 
seals in Behring’s Sea. 
I am to request that the inclosures in Sir W. Ritchie’s despatch, 
which are sent in original, may be returned after perusal. 
Ian, &e. 
(Signed) JOHN BRAMSTON, 
