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His Excellency replied that it had been the policy of the Russian 
Government to discourage pelagic seal-hunting altogether, and to con- 
fine it to the Russian islands, as far as they were concerned; aud that, 
as a matter of fact, Russian vessels were not in the habit of hunting 
seals to the east of the Russian-American line, and were certainly never 
encouraged to do so. He said that he would transmit to M. de Giers a 
pressing request. 
Tam, We. 
(Signed) SALISBURY. 
No. 46. 
Sir J. Pauncefote to the Marquis of Salishury.—( Received June 18.) 
WASHINGTON, June 9, 1891. 
My Lorp: I have the honour to inclose copy of the note which, on 
receipt of your Lordship’s telegrain of the 5th instant, I addressed to 
the Acting Secretary of State inclosing a Memorandum, copy of which 
is likewise inclosed, giving the substance of your Lordship’s above- 
mentioned telegram on the subject of the proposed modus vivendi in 
Behring’s Sea. 
1 have, &e. 
(Signed) JULIAN PAUNCEFOTE. 
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Sir J. Pauncefote to Mr. Wharton. 
; WASHINGTON, June 6, 1891. 
Sir: Immediately on the receipt of your note of the 4th instant, relative to the 
proposed modus vivendi in Behring’s Sea, I communicated its contents to the Marquis 
of Salisbury by telegraph. 
I have now the honour to inform you that late last night I received a telegraphic 
reply from his Lordship, of which the substance is contained in the inclosed Memo- 
randum. 
I have, &c. 
(Signed) JULIAN PAUNCEFOTE, 
[Inclosure 2 in No. 46.] 
Memorandum. 
Her Majesty’s Government accept the proposal of the President that the modus 
vivendi, if agreed upon, should provide that the naval or other duly commissioned 
officers of either party may arrest any offending vessel and turn it over at the near- 
est port of the nation whose flag it carries, for such judicial proceedings as the law 
provides. 
By accepting this proposal, Her Majesty’s Government give to the cruizers of the 
United States the power of supervising the conduct of British subjects in observing 
the proposed agreement at sea. This is a concession which, in Lord Salisbury’s 
opinion, entitles Her Majesty’s Government to ask from the United States the cor- 
responding power of supervising the proceedings of United States citizens on the 
Seal Islands. It is on the fidelity with which the condition of not killing more than 
7,500 seals is observed that the equality of the proposed agreement depends. 
Her Majesty’s Government, therefore, regard it as indispensable that they should 
have the right of satisfying themselves that this condition is fully observed by citi- 
