534 APPENDIX TO CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 
The words which I quote from your letter have reference, no doubt, to the pro- 
posal of the United States that British sealing-vessels should be entirely excluded 
from the Behring’s Sea during the seal fishery season. I shall not attempt to discuss 
here whether what took place in the course of the abortive negotiations of 1888 
amounted to an offer on the part of Lord Salisbury “to make such a regulation 
permanent.” 
It will suffice for the present purpose to state that the further examination of the 
question which has taken place has satisfied his Lordship that such an extreme 
measure as that proposed in 1888 goes far beyond the requirements of the case. Her 
Majesty’s Government are quite willing to adopt all measures which shall be satis- 
factorily proved to be necessary for the preservation of the fur seal species, and to 
enforce such measures on British subjects by proper legislation. 
But they are not prepared to agree to such a regulation as is suggested in your 
letter, for the present fishery season, as, apart from other considerations, there would 
be no legal power to enforce its observance on British subjects and British vessels. 
IT have, &c, 
(Signed) JULIAN PAUNCEFOTE. 
No. 362. 
Colonial Office to Foreign Office. —( Received June 14.) 
DOWNING STREET, June 13, 1890. 
Str: I am directed by Lord Knutsford to transmit to you, for the 
information of the Marquis of Salisbury, a copy of a despatch from the 
Governor-General of Canada, forwarding a claim from the owners of 
the ‘“‘Pathfinder” for the detention of that vessel at Neagh Bay in 
March last. 
Tam, &e. 
(Signed) EDWARD WINGFIELD. 
. 
{Inclosure 1 in No. 362.] 
Lord Stanley of Preston » Lord Knutsford. 
GOVERNMENT HOUSE, Ottawa, May 20, 1890. 
My Lorp: I have the honour to forward herewith, for transmission to the United 
States authorities, a copy of an approved Minute of the Privy Council of Canada, 
to which is attached a formal declaration of the managing owner of the british 
schooner ‘‘ Pathfinder,” setting forth the particulars of the seizure of that vessel in 
Neagh Bay, in the State of Washington, by the United States Revenue cutter ‘‘Cor- 
win, » and preferring a claim for damages to the amount of 3,000 dollars against 
the United States Government in consequence of the said seizure. 
Your Lordship has already been informed in the Deputy Governor’s despatch of 
the 23rd October last of the circumstances of the former seizure of this vessel in 
3ehring’s Sea on the 27th August last by the same United States cruizer. 
Ihave, &c. ; : 
(Signed) STANLEY OF PRESTON, 
483 [Inclosure 2 in No. 362.] 
Report of a Committee of the Honourable the Privy Council, approved by his Lxecellency 
the Governor-General in Council on the I2Zth May, 1890. 
Ona Report dated the 23rd April, 1890, from the Minister of Marine and Fisheries, 
submitting, in connection with previous Reports on the subject of seizures of British 
fishing-vessels in the Behring’s Sea, and more particularly with reference to the 
Minute of Council approved by your Excellency on the 14th September, 1889, detail- 
ing the circumstances of the seizure of the schooner “ Pathtinder,” a formal declara- 
tion of the managing owner of the ‘ Pathfinder,” in which are set forth particulars 
