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In any ease, Lord Knutsford is of opinion that an exhaustive joint 
inquiry should be made into the whole question, the results of which 
should be laid before the Arbitrators to enable them to arrive at a 
sound decision. 
Lam, We. 
(Signed) JOHN BRAMSTON. 
No. 4 
Colonial Office to Foreign Offiee.—(Received May 29.) 
DOWNING STREET, May 29, 1891. 
Str: With reference to previous correspondence, [ am directed by 
Lord Knutsford to transmit to you, to be laid before the Marquis of 
Salisbury, paraphrase of a telegram from the Governor-General of 
Canada, stating that the Canadian Government acquiesce in the pro- 
posed modus vivendi in Behring’s Sea subject to certain conditions. 
Iam, &c. 
(Signed) EDWARD WINGFIELD. 
{Inclosure in No. 4.—Telegraphice. ] 
Lord Stanley of Preston to Lord Knutsford. 
OrTawa, May 27, 1891. 
With reference to my telegram of the 18th May, I forward the Minute of the Privy 
Council: 
With reference to your telegrams of the 17th and 23rd instant, the Government of 
the Dominion accede to the proposition of Her Majesty’s Government, provided that 
compensation be given to the sealers who may be prevented from prosecuting their 
avocation, and that the authorities of the United States accept at once the terms 
suggested by her Majesty’s Government, and concurred in by the Dominion Govern- 
ment in August last, as an essential part of the same Agreement. 
As, however, the Canadian Government does not possess the means of giving the 
proposed warning, and as the time for doing so appears inadequate, the Dominion 
Ministers cannot undertake to be answerable in the event of such warning proving 
ineffective. 
There would be ample time to give due notice to all concerned if an alternative 
suggestion to the proposals referred to were made for a close seascn next year. 
No. 5. 
The Marquis of Salisbury to Sir R. Morier. 
{Telegraphic.] 
FOREIGN OFFICE, June 2, 1891. 
Ask the Russian Government whether they would be disposed to 
join in an Agreement which has been proposed by the United States 
Government and accepted by her Majesty’s Government for a suspen- 
sion until May 1892 of seal hunting in the islands and waters of Beh- 
ring’s Sea. 
