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Government will give an assurance in some form that they will concur in a reference 
to a Joint Commission to ascertain what permanent measures are necessary for the 
preservation of the fur-seal species in the Northern Pacific Ocean, 
I have the honour, therefore, to inquire whether the President 1s prepared to give 
that assurance, and, if so, I shall, on receipt of it, lose no time in communicating it 
by telegraph to Lord Salisbury, and in applying to his Lordship for authority to sign 
the proposed Agreement. 
I have, &c. 
(Signed) JULIAN PAUNCEFOTE. 
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Mr. Wharton to Sir J. Pauncefote. 
DEPARTMENT OF STATE, Washington, June 11, 1891. 
Sir: I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your note of to-day’s date, 
and, in reply, 1 am directed by the President to say that the Government of the 
United States, recognizing the fact that full and adequate measures for the protec- 
tion of seal life should embrace the whole of Behring’s Sea and portions of the North 
Pacific Ocean, will have no hesitancy in agreeing, in connection with Her Majesty’s 
Government, to the appointment of a Joint Commission to ascertain what permanent 
measures are necessary for the preservation of the seal species in the waters referred 
to; such an Agreement to besigned simultaneously with the Convention for arbitra- 
tion, and to be without prejudic e to the questions to be submitted to the Arbitrators. 
A full reply to vour note of the drd June, relating to the terms of arbitration, will 
not be long delayed. 
I hay e, &e. 
(Signed) WILLIAM I, WHARTON. 
No. 57. 
Sir 7. Malet to the Marquis of Salisbury.—( Received June aaa) 
BERLIN, June 18, 1891. 
My Lorp: With reference to your Lordship’s despatch of the 5rd 
instant, and to mine of the 12th instant, I have the honour to inform 
your Lordship that Baron von Marschall told me to-day that he intends 
to publish in the official Gazette a translation of the Agreement between 
England and the United States in regard to the Behring’s Sea seal 
fishery, and to accompany it with an injunction to German subjects to 
observe its regulations. 
I have, We. 
(Signed) E. B. MALE’. 
No. 58. 
The Marquis of Salisbury to Sir J. Pauncefote. 
[ Telegraphic. ] 
FOREIGN OFFICE, June 22, 1891. 
I have received your telegram of yesterday, containing a summary 
of the instructions issued by the United States Government to their 
cruizers for carrying into effect the modus vivendi Agreement in Beh- 
ring’s s Sea, 
