APPENDIX TO CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. Ce 
No. 21. 
The Marquis of Salisbury to Sir J. Pauncefote. 
[Telegraphic.] 
FOREIGN OFFICE, June 8, 1891. 
The following Articles of Agreement contain the terms to which Her 
Majesty’s Government are prepared to assent for the establishment of 
a modus vivendi in Behring’s Sea. 
You are authorized to submit them for the consideration of the Gov- 
ernment of the United States: 
For the purpose of avoiding irritating differences, and with a view to promote 
friendly settlement of the questions pending between the two Governments touch- 
ing their respective rights in Behring’s Sea, and for preservation of seal species, the 
following Agreement is made without prejudice to the rights or claims of either 
party: 
i Eler. Majesty’s Government will prohibit antil May next seal-killing in that part 
of Behring’s Sea lying eastward of the line of demarcation described in Article I of 
the Treaty of 1867 between the United States and Russia, and will promptly use best 
efforts to insure observance of prohibition by British subjects and vessels. 
2. If the United States Government will prohibit seal-killing for the same period 
in the same part of Behring’s Sea, and on the shores and islands thereof the property 
of the United States (in excess of 7,500 to be taken on the islands as food skins, and 
not for tax and shipment), and will ‘promptly use best efforts to insure observance of 
prohibition by United States citizens and vessels. 
3. Every offending vessel or person may be seized and detained by the naval or 
other duly commissioned officers of either of the High Contracting Parties, but they 
shall be handed over as soon as practicable to the authorities of the nation to which 
they respectively belong, who shall alone have jurisdiction to try the offence and 
impose the penalties for the same, The witnesses and the proofs necessary to estab- 
lish the offence shall also be sent with them. 
4, In order to facilitate such proper inquiries as Her Majesty’s Government may 
desire to make, with the view to the presentation of the Case of that Government 
before Arbitrators, and in expectation that an agreement for arbitration may be 
arrived at, itis agreed that suitable persons, designated by Great Britain, will be 
permitted at any time, upon application, to visit, or to remain upon, the seal islands 
during the present sealing season for that purpose. 
14 5. A Commission of four experts, two nominated by each Government, and 
a Chairman nominated by the Arbitratorsif appointed, andif not by the afore- 
said Commissioners, shall examine and report on the following question: 
What international arrangements, if any, between Great Britain, United States, 
and Russia, or any other Pow er, are necessary for the purpose of preserving the fur- 
seal race in the Northern Pacific from extermination ? 
6. The Government of the United States will join with that of Her Majesty in 
requesting Russia to forbid her subjects from sealing to the east of the line indicated 
in Article 1 of the present Agreement until the Ist May, 1892. 
No. 22. 
Sir J. Pauncefote to the Marquis of Salishury.—(Received June 8.) 
{ Telegraphic. ] 
WASHINGTON, June 8, 1891, 
T have to-day delivered a note to the Acting Secretary of State com- 
municating to him, with the request that he will submit it to his Gov- 
ernment for their consider: ation, the draft Agreement for a modus vivendi 
contained in your Lordship’s telegram of to-day. 
