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and to pay the expense of maintaining schools therein during a period of not less 
than eight months in each year, as may be required by the Secretary of the Treasury. 
“Also to pay to the inhabitants of said islands, for labour performed by them, such 
just and proper compensation as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury. 
“The number of seals to be taken for their skins upon said islands during the year 
ending May 1891 will be limited to 60,000, and for the succeeding years the number 
will be determined by the Secretary of the Treasury in accordance with the provisions 
of law. 
“The right is reserved to reject any and all proposals not deemed to be in accord- 
ques en the best interests of the United States, and of the inhabitants of said 
islands. 
“As a guarantee of good faith, each proposal must be accompanied by a properly 
certified cheque drawn on a United States national bank.” 
No. 269. 
Colonial Office to Foreign Office.—(Received January 10.) 
DOWNING STREET, January 10, 1890. 
Sir: With reference to the letter from this Department of the 12th 
ultimo, I am directed by Lord Knutsford to transmit to you, to be laid 
before the Marquis of Salisbury, copies of three despatches from the 
Governor-General of Canada, forwarding the claims for losses incurred 
by the seizure in Behring’s Sea of the “Triumph,” the * Lily,” and the 
“Black Diamond.” 
The claim in the case of the “ Minnie” has not yet been received. 
Iam, We. 
(Signed) ROBERT G, W. HERBERT. 
[Inclosure 1 in No. 269.] 
Lord Stanley of Preston to Lord Knutsford. 
GOVERNMENT HouskE, Ottawa, December 16, 1889. 
My Lorp: With reference to my despatch of the 26th August last,* in which I 
inclosed a copy of an approved Minute of the Privy Council detailing the 
384 circumstances attending the warning-oft from the Behring’s Sea of the British 
sealing schooner ‘‘Triumph,” I have the honour to forward herewith, for 
transmission to the United States Government, a copy of an approved Report of a 
Committee of the Privy Council, submitting formal statements and claim to com- 
pensation, on behalf of the owners, for loss incurred by reason of the said vessel 
being interfered with in the legitimate pursuit of her calling. 
I have, &v. 
(Signed) STANLEY OF PRESTON. 
[Inclosure 2 in No. 269.] 
Report of a Committee of the Honourable the Privy Council, approved by his Excellency 
the Governor-General in Council on November 16, 1889. 
On a Report, dated the 11th November, 1889, from the Minister of Marine and 
Fisheries, submitting, in connection with the warning-off from the Behring’s Sea of 
the British sealing-schooner ‘‘ Triumph,” the circumstances attending which were 
detailed in the Minute of Council dated the 22nd August last, made upon a Report 
of the 13th August last of the Minister of Marine and Fisheries, formal statements 
and claim to compensation on behalf of the owners, for loss incurred by reason of 
the said vessel being interfered with in the legitimate pursuit of her calling. 
*See Inclosure 1 in No. 222. 
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