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full and true transcripts of said original pleadings, papers, and journal entries now 
in my custody and control. 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said 
Court, at Sitka, in said district, this 2nd day of April, 1888. 
[Seal United States District (Signed) Henry E. Haypon, Clerk. 
Court, Alaska. ] 
Endorsed on cover: Alaska D.C.U.S. No. 683. The schooner ‘‘Sylvia Handy,” 
her tackle, apparel, &c.; L. N. Handy, James Cartheut, J. N. Handy, and William 
Thomas, owners, appellants, v. the United States. Filed the 16th June, 1888, 
No. 18. 
Sir J. Pauncefote to the Marquis of Salishbury.—( Received December 27.) 
WASHINGTON, December 16, 1890. 
My Lorp: In the last paragraph of your Lordship’s despatch of the 
22nd October I was instructed to read that despatch to the Secre- 
oT tary of State,if he should revert to the subject of his note tome 
of the 19th. July, but your Lordship added that you did not con- 
sider the controversy which it raised of sufficient importance to require 
any communication on my part unless Mr. Blaine should refer specially 
to it. 
Although he has not done so, I observed that the subject was adverted 
to in an article in the “ New York Tribune,” purporting to give some 
information as to the further correspondence on the Behring’s Sea ques- 
tion, which, as announced in the President’s Message, will shortly be 
presented to Congress. 
In these circumstances, I thought it desirable to communicate a copy 
of your Lordship’s despatch to the Secretary of State, in order that it 
might be included in the further correspondence about to be published, 
and I called on Mr. Blaine on the 11th instant and placed a copy of the 
despatch in his hands, explaining that I did so in consequence of the 
article which had appeared in the ‘‘ New York Tribune.” 
I have, &e. 
(Signed) JULIAN PAUNCEFOTE. 
Nos 19; 
Sir J. Pauncefote to the Marquis of Salisbury.—( Received December 30.) 
WASHINGTON, December 19, 1890. 
My Lorp: I have the honour to transmit herewith a printed copy of 
a note which I received on the 17th instant from the Secretary of State. 
It contains the reply of the United States Government to your Lord- 
ship’s despatch of the 2nd August last, offering on behalf of Her Maj- 
esty’s Government to submit to arbitration the question of the legality 
of the recent seizures of British sealing-vessels in the Behring’s Sea by 
United States revenue cruizers. 
The voluminous character of this note precludes any attempt to give 
even a brief abstract of its contents within the limits of a despatch. 
Its main feature, however, is that while the United States Govern- 
ment decline to submit to arbitration the real question in controversy, 
