782 APPENDIX TO CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 
19 No. 39. 
Sir J. Pauncefote to the Marquis of Salisbury.—( Received June 15.) 
WASHINGTON, June 5, 1891. 
My Lorp: With reference to my telegram of the 3rd instant, I have 
the honour to inclose copies of the Momoranda based on your Lord- 
ship’s telegrams of the 2nd instant, on the subject of the modus vivendi 
in Behring’s Sea, and of the terms of arbitration respectively, which I 
left yesterday morning with the Under-Secretary of State. 
I have, &c. 
(Signed) JULIAN PAUNCEFOTE. 
[Inclosure 1 in No. 39.] 
MEMORANDUM. 
Proposal of Her Majesty’s Government for a modus vivendi in the Behring’s Sea during 
the present Fishery Season. 
The Governments of Great Britain and of the United States shall prohibit, until 
May 1892, the killing of seals in Belring’s Sea or any islands thereof, and will, to 
the best of their power and ability, insure that the subjects and citizens of the two 
nations respectively, and the vessels flying their respective flags, shall observe that 
prohibition. 
2. During the period above specified the United States Government shall have the 
right to kill 7,500 seals. 
3. Consuls may, at any time, be appointed to the islands in the Behring’s Sea, and 
the United States Government will grant an exequatur to any such Consul. 
4, Unless the assent of Russia be obtained to this Convention it shall not come 
into operation. 
(Signed) JULIAN PAUNCEFOTE. 
WASHINGTON, June 3, 1891. 
[Inclosure 2 in No. 3$.] 
MEMORANDUM. 
The Undersigned has been instructed by the Marquis of Salisbury to inform the 
United States Government that Her Majesty’s Government are prepared to assent to 
the first five questions proposed to be submitted to arbitration in the note of the 
Honourable James G. Blaine to the Undersigned, dated the 14th April last. 
Her Majesty’s Government cannot give their assent to the sixth question formu- 
lated in that note. In lieu thereof they propose the appointment of a Commission 
to consist of four experts, of whom two shall be nominated by each Government, 
and a Chairman, who shall be nominated by the Arbitrators. The Commission shall 
examine and report on the question which follows: 
“For the purpose of preserving the fur-seal race in Behring’s Sea from extermina- 
tion, what international arrangements, if any, are necessary between Great Britain 
and the United States and Russia or any other Power ?” 
As regards the question of compensation Her Majesty’s Government propose the 
following Article: 
“Tt shall be competent to the Arbitrators to award such compensation as in their 
judgment shall be equitable to the subjects and citizens of either Power who shall 
be shown to have been damnified in the pursuit of the industry of sealing by the 
action of the other Power.” 
(Signed) JULIAN PAUNCEFOTE. 
WASHINGTON, June 3, 1891. 
