538 APPENDIX TO CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 
[Inclosure 2 in No. 363.] 
Sir J. Pauncefole to Mr. Blaine. 
WASHINGTON, June 6, 1890. 
Sir: T have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your official note of the 4th 
instant, commenting upon the reply which I returned to the inquiry contained in 
your letter of the 2nd instant, whether the Marquis of Salisbury would, in order to 
promote a friendly solution of the fur-seal question, agree to the total exclusion of 
British sealers from the Behring’s Sea during the present fishery season. You 
expressed the regret of the President that ‘his considerate and most friendly pro- 
posal for the adjustment of all trouble connected with the Behring’s Sea should be 
so promptly rejected.” 
I have this day transmitted a copy of your note to Lord Salisbury, and, pending 
further instructions, I will abstain from pursuing the discession on the various 
points with which it deals, especially as the views of Her Majesty’s Government 
on the main questions involved are stated with great precision in Lord Salisbury’s 
despatch of the 22nd May, which I had the honour to read to you yesterday, and 
of which, in accordance with your desire, I left a copy in your hands. 
I would only observe that, as regards the sufficiency or insufficiency of the radius 
of 10 miles around the rookeries ‘‘ within which Her Majesty’s Government propose 
that sealers should be excluded,” no opportunity was afforded me of discussing the 
question before the proposals of Her Majesty’s Government were summarily rejected. 
I may mention also that I fear there has been some misapprehension as regards a 
request which you appear to have understood me to make respecting the date of the 
sailing of United States Revenue cutters for Behring’s Sea. I have no recollection 
ot havi ing made any suggestion with reference to those Revenue cutters, except that 
their Commanders should receive explicit instructions not to apply the Municipal 
Law of the United States to British vessels in Behring’s Sea outside of territorial 
waters. 
I have, &e. 
(Signed) J. PAUNCEFOTE. 
No. 364. 
Colonial Office to Foreign Office.—( Received June 18.) 
DOWNING STREET, June 17, 1890. 
Str: Lam directed by Lord Knutsford to transmit to you, for the 
information of the Marquis of Salisbury, a copy of the Annual Report 
for 1889 of the Canadian Minister of Marine and Fisheries. 
I am to eall attention to the Keport on the fur-seal fishery. 
Tam, &e. 
(Signed) JOHN BRAMSTON. 
487 [Inclosure in No. 364.] 
Letract from the Annual Report of the Department of Fisheries, Dominion of Canada, for 
the calendar year 1889. 
MARINE FURS. 
The Returns show an increase in the catch this season of 5,587 fur-sealskins, and 
twenty-five sea-otters. There were 1,922 more sealskins taken on the coast by our 
vessels than in 1888, and 2,558 more by foreigners, who sold their catches in Victoria. 
