APPENDIX TO CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. T87 
No. 44. 
Admiralty to Foreign Office.—(Received June 17.) 
ADMIRALTY, June 16, 1891. 
Sim: With reference to previous correspondence respecting the Beh- 
ring’s Sea seal fishery, I am commanded by my Lords Commissioners of 
the Admiralty to transmit herewith, for the information of the Secre- 
tary of State for Foreign Affairs , copies of telegrams which have this 
day been sent to the Commander: in-chief in China and the Senior Offi- 
cer at Esquimalt, directing Her Majesty’s ships “ Porpoise,” ** Nymphe,” 
and “ Pheasant” to proceed to Behring’s Sea for fishery duty, and to 
carry out the provisions of ‘“¢*The Seal Fishery (Behring’s Sea) Act, 
Tso? 
Lam, Xe. 
(Signed) Evan MACGREGOR. 
24 [Inclosure in No. 44.] 
TELEGRAMS SENT TO COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF IN CHINA AND THE SENIOR OFFICER 
AT ESQUIMALT. 
To Senior Officer, Esquimalt. 
The following Act of Parliament has been passed: 
Article 1, clause 1. Her Majesty the Queen may, by Order in Council, prohibit the 
catching of seals by British ships in Behring’s 8 Sea, or such part thereof as is defined 
by the said Order during the period limited by the Order. 
Clause 2. While an Order in Council under this Act is in force, a person belonging 
to a British ship shall not kill or take or hunt, or attempt to kill or take, any seal 
within Behring’s Sea during the period limited by the Order, and a British ship shall 
not, nor shall any of the equipment or crew thereof, be used or employed in such 
killing, taking, hunting, or attempt. 
Clause 3. If there is any contravention of this Act, any person committing, pro- 
curing, aiding, or abetting such contravention shall be guilty of a misdemeanour 
within meaning of ‘‘‘The Merchant Shipping Act, 1854,” and the ship and her equip- 
ment, and ey erything on board thereof, shall be forfeited to Her Majesty as if an 
offence had been committed under section 103 of the said Act, and the provisions 
of sections 103 and 104 and Part 10 of the said Act shall apply as if they were herein 
re enacted, and in terms made applicable to an offence and forfeiture under this Act. 
Clause 4. Any commissioned officer on full pay in the naval service of Her Majesty 
shall have power, during the period limited by the Order in Council, to stop and 
examine any British ship in Behring’s Sea and to detain her or any portion of her 
equipment or any of her crew, if in his judgment the ship is being or is preparing 
to be used or employed in contravention of this section. 
Clause 5. If a British ship is found within Behring’s Sea having on board thereof 
fishing or shooting implements or sealskins or bodies of seals, it shall lie on the owner 
or master of such ship to prove that the ship was not used or employed in contra- 
vention of this Act. 
Article 3, clause 1. This Act shall apply to the animal known as the fur-seal, and 
to any marine animal specified in that behalf by an Order in Council under this Act, 
and the expression ‘‘seal” in this Act shall be construed accordingly. 
Clause 2. The expression ‘‘ Behrine’s Sea” in this Act means the seas known as 
Behring’s Sea within the limits dese ribed i in an order under this Act; 
Clause 3. The expression ‘‘equipment” in this Act includes any boat, tackle, fish- 
ing or shooting instruments, and other things belonging to the ship. 
Clause 4. This act may be cited as “The Seal Fishery (Behring’s Sea) Act, 1891.” 
Order in Council accordingly has been approved. It will only “apply to Behring’ 8 
Sea, and only that part of Behring’s Sea which is east of the Russian- American 
line: description in se parate telegram. 
Your instructions are to proc eed at once with “Nymphe” and Pheasant” Beh- 
ring’s Sea and cruize to eastward of above-named line as may be necessary. Every 
ship under british colours which in your judgment is hunting seals or preparing to 
