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APPENDIX TO CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 5O7 
ARTICLE X. 
Every such offending vessel or person may be seized and detained Seizure for 
by the haval or other duly commissioned officers of any of the High Pee mE prone: 
Contracting Parties, but they shall be handed over as soon as practi- igh oe 
cable to the authorities of the nation to which they respectively Trial of of- 
belong, who shall alone have jurisdiction to try the offence and i impose fences. 
the penalties for the same. The witnesses and proofs necessary to 
establish the offence shall also be sent with them, and the Court adju- 
dicating upon the case may order such portion of the fines imposed, or 
of the proceeds of the condemned vessel, to be applied in payment of 
the expenses occasioned thereby. 
459 ARTICLE XI. 
This Convention shall be ratified, and the ratifications shall be Ratification. 
exchanged at in six months from the date thereof, or sooner if Commence- 
possible. It shall take effect on such day as shall be agreed Epon by mentyand dura- 
the High Contracting Parties, and shall remain in force “until the expi- os Aa 
ration of six month after the date of the Report of the Commission 
of Experts to be appointed under Article 1; but its duration may be 
extended by consent. 
ARTICLE XII. 
The High Contracting Parties agree to invite the accession of the euceen ton of 
other Powers to the present Cony ention. bE SE 
{Inclosure 3 in No. 326.] 
Extract from a Pamphlet entitled “ Fur-scal Fisheries of the Pacific Coast and Alaska.” 
Published by C. D. Ladd. 
It is claimed that many seals are shot that sink and are lost. Undoubtedly there 
are some Jost in this way, but the percentage is light, probably one in thirty or 
forty, not more than this. It is also claimed that ten are shot and wounded that 
die to one that is secured. This is also an error. Many seals are shot at that are 
net hit at all, but when a seal is wounded, so that in the end it will die, it is most 
always secured by the hunter, who may have to shoot at it several times in order 
to get it, as the seal in the water exposes only its head, and when frightened exposes 
only a small portion of that, so that, together with the constant diving of the seal, 
the motion of the boat, &c., makes it very hard to hit. This is where it is claimed 
that ten are shot and wounded to one that is secured, but it is nearer the truth that 
one is lost to ten that are secured, for the reason that when a seal is wounded it can- 
not remain under water any length of time, and therefore the hunter can easily follow 
it up and secure it. 
No. 327. 
Colonial Office to Foreign Office.—(Received May 8.) 
DOWNING STREET, May 8, 1890. 
Sir: In reply to your letter of the 5th instant, I am directed by Lord 
Knutsford to acquaint you, for the information of the Marquis of Salis- 
bury, that he does not see any reason for taking exception to the pro- 
posal of the Dominion Government that the question of the liability of 
the United States Government to pay compensation in respect of the 
seizures in Behring’s Sea should be submitted te two eminent Judges 
instead of the single jurisconsult proposed by Mr. Blaine, if provision 
is made for securing a final decision in the event of a ‘difference of 
opinion between the * Sudges chosen, by a reference to an umpire to be 
selected by the two J udges before the arbitration is commenced, 
