APPENDIX TO CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 8Ol 
Directions have been given for the publication of this Order to-day 
in a Supplement to yesterday’s “ London Gazette,” and [am to request 
that you will lay the same before the Secretary of State for Horeign 
Affairs. 
Iam, Xe. 
(Signed) C. L. PEEL. 
{Inclosure in No. 60.] 
At the Court at Windsor, the 23rd day of June, 1591, 
Present: 
THE QUEEN’S Most EXCELLENT MAJESTY. 
Lord President. Earl of Limerick. 
Marquis of Salisbury. Lord Arthur Hill. 
Whereas by ‘‘The Seal Fishery (Behring’s Sea) Act, 1891,” it is enacted that Her 
Majesty the Queen may by Order in Council prohibit the catching of seals by British 
ships in Behring’s Sea, or such part thereof as is defined by the said Order, during 
the period limited by the Order: 
And whereas the expression ‘‘ Behring’s Sea” in the said Act means the seas known 
as Behring’s Sea within the limits described in an Order under the said Act: 
Now, therefore, Her Majesty, in virtue of the powers vested in her by the said 
recited Act, by and with the advice of her Privy Council, is hereby pleased to order, 
and it is hereby ordered, as follows: 
1. This Order may be cited as the Seal Fishery (Behring’s Sea) Order in Council, 
1891. 
2. From and after the 24th day of June, 1891, until the Ist day of May, 1892, the 
catching of seals by British ships in Behring’s Sea as hereinafter defined is hereby 
prohibited. 
37 3. For the purposes of the said recited Act and of this Order the expression 
‘‘ Behring’s Sea” means so much of that part of the Pacifie Ocean known as 
Behring’s Sea as lies between the paralle} of 65° 30/ north latitude and the chain of 
the Aleutian Islands, and eastward of the following line of demarcation, that is to 
say, a line commencing at a point in Behring’s Straits on the said parallel of 65° 30! 
north latitude, at its intersection by the meridian which passes midway between the 
Islands of Krusenstern or Innalook and the Island of Ratmanotf or Noonarbook; 
and proceeding thence in a course nearly south-west through Behring’s Straits and 
the seas known as Behring’s Sea, so as to pass midway between the north-west point 
of the Island of St. Lawrence and the south-east point of Cape Choukotski to the 
meridian of 172° west longitude; thence from the intersection of that meridian in a 
south-westerly direction, so as to pass midway between the Island of Attou and the 
Copper Island of the Kormandorski couplet or group in the North Pacific Ocean, to 
the meridian of 195° west longitude. 
(Signed) C. L. PEEL. 
No. 61. 
Sir R. Morier to the Marquis of Salisbury.—( Received June 24.) 
[Telegraphic. ] 
Sr. PETERSBURGH, June 24, 1891. 
I have the honour to inquire of your Lordship whether, by the 3rd 
section of the Agreement to prohibit the killing of seals in certain parts 
of the Behring’s Sea, the two Contracting Parties are empowered to 
seize and detain vessels other than British or American, as also per- 
sous other than American citizens or British subjects. 
B.S, PPW ol 
