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which Mr. Blaine proposes should be submitted to arbitration in his 
note of the 14th April. 
Her Majesty’s Government are unable to assent to the sixth point. 
They propose as an alternative the appointment of a Commission 
consisting of four experts, of which two should be nominated by Great 
Britain, and two by the United States, and of a Chairman nominated 
by the Arbiters. 
This Commission to examine and report on the following question: 
What international arrangements, if any, between Great Britain, the 
United States, and Russia, or any other Power, are necessary for the 
purpose of preserving the fur-seal race in Behring’s Sea from extermi- 
nation? 
With regard to the question of compensation, Her Majesty’s Govern- 
ment propose the following Article: 
“Tf it shall be shown to the Arbitrators that seal-hunters, subjects 
of either Power, have been damnified in the pursuit of that industry by 
the action of the other Power, it shall be competent for the Arbitrators 
to award such compensation to the said subjects as in their judgment 
shall seem equitable.” 
No. 9. 
The Marquis of Salisbury to M. de Staal. 
FOREIGN OFFICE, June 2, 1891. 
M. L’ AMBASSADEUR: I have the honour to inform your Excellency 
that Her Majesty’s Government have agreed to a proposal made 
9 to them by the Government of the United States that seal hunt- 
ing should be suspended in the islands and waters of Behring’s 
Sea until May 1592. We believe that an engagement will be entered 
into by both Powers to do their best to prevent their subjects and 
citizens from taking part in the seal hunting, exception only being 
made for a catch of 7,500 destined for the subsistence of the natives in 
the service of the Alaska Company. <A proposal has been made to the 
United States Government to that effect. 
This Arrangement cannot be put in force without the adherence of ° 
the Russian Government, and the Agreement will not be signed until 
this has been obtained. Her Majesty’s Ambassador at St. Petersburgh 
has been instructed by telegraph to make a communication in the above 
sense to M. de Giers, and to express our earnest hope that the Russian 
Government will consent to a measure which appears to be necessary 
in order to prevent the early extermination of the fur-seal. 
I have, We. 
(Signed) SALISBURY. 
No. 10. 
Sir J. Pauncefote to the Marquis of Salisbury.—( Received June 3.) 
[Telegraphic.] 
WASHINGTON, June 3, 1891. 
I have to-day communicated to the Acting Secretary of State, in the 
form of Memoranda, the substance of your Lordship’s telegrams of 
yesterday’s date, relative to Behring’s Sea, which I received last night. 
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