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85 No. 28. 
Colonial Office to Foreign Office.—(Received January 30.) 
{Extract.] 
DOWNING STREET, January 29, 1891. 
With reference to a Report, received through the Admiralty, * from 
the Commander-in-chief on the Pacific Station on the subject of the 
seal fishing in the Behring’s Sea, I am directed by Lord Knutsford to 
transmit to you, to be laid before the Marquis of Salisbury, an extract 
of a despatch from the Governor-General of Canada, with a Minute of 
his Privy Council, submitting a Report by the Minister of Marine and 
Fisheries on the Commander-in-chief’s letter. 
{Inclosure 1 in No. 28.—Extract.] 
Lord Stanley of Preston to Lord Knutsford. 
GOVERNMENT HOUSE, Ottawa, January, 1891. 
I have the honour to forward to your Lordship a copy of an approved Minute of 
the Privy Council, submitting a Report by the Minister of Marine and Fisheries on 
the letter from the Commander-in-chief on the Pacific Station as to the seal fishery 
in Behring’s Sea, copy of which was inclosed in your Lordship’s despatch of the 
5th November last. 
{Inclosure 2 in No. 28.] 
Report of a Committee of the Honourable the Privy Council, approved by his Excellency 
the Governor-General in Council, on the 31st December, 1890. 
The Committee of the Privy Council have had under consideration a despatch, 
dated the 5th November, 1890, from Lord Knutsford, transmitting a copy of a com- 
munication, received through the Foreign Office from the Admiralty, inclosing a 
Report from the Commander-in-chief.on the Pacific Station concerning the seal 
fishery in Behring’s Sea. 
The Minister of Marine and Fisheries, to whom the despatch and inclosures were 
referred, submits the annexed Report thereupon, in which the Committee concur. 
The Committee advise that your Excellency be moved to forward a copy of this 
Report to the Right Honourable the Secretary of State, for the information of Her 
Majesty’s Government. 
All which is respectfully submitted for your Excellenvy’s approval. 
(Signed) JOHN J. MCGEn, 
Clerk, Privy Council. 
{Inclosure 3 in No. 28.—Extract.} 
Mr. Tupper to Lord Stanley of Preston. 
DEPARTMENT OF FISHERIES, CANADA, 
Ottawa, November 27, 1890. 
The Undersigned has the honour to acknowledge your Excellency’s reference, cov- 
ering a letter ‘from Her Majesty’s Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies, 
transmitting a copy of a communication received by Lord Knutsford through the 
Foreign Office from the Admir: alty, inclosing a Report from the Commander-in-chief 
on the Pacific Station concer ning the seal fishery i in Behring’s Sea. 
The Undersigned has ec: weftully perused the letter of the Commander-in-chief of 
the Pacific Station, in which he reports to the Admiralty the return of the sealing 
schooners from Behrin g’s Sea, and certain information which he has gathered from 
* See No. 13. 
