APPENDIX TO CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN, 803 
Separate despatches will be addressed to you with regard to the 
expenses of your mission, and the form in which your correspondence 
with this Office should be conducted. 
Iam, We. 
(Signed) SALISBURY. 
No. 63. 
Sir J. Pauncefote to the Marquis of Salisbury.—( Received June 25.) 
WASHINGTON, June 16, 1891. 
My Lorp: With reference to your Lordship’s telegram of the 13th 
instant, authorizing me to sign the Agreement for a modus vivendi in 
Behring’s Sea, instructing me at the same time to record that I signed 
it on the clear understanding that the Commission of Experts would 
be appointed without delay to visit the seal islands, I have now the 
honour to transmit to your Lordship a copy of a note which I addressed 
to the Honourable William Wharton, Acting Secretary of State, in the 
above sense, as well as a copy of his reply thereto. 
I have, Xe. 
(Signed) JULIAN PAUNCEFOTE. 
{Inclosure 1 in No. 63.] 
Sir J. Pauncefote to Mr. Wharton. 
WASHINGTON, June 13, 1891, 
Sir: I lost no time in telegraphing to the Marquis of Salisbury the contents of 
your note of the 11th June, couveying the assent of your Government to the 
appointment, in connection with Her Majesty’s Government, of a Joint Commission 
for the purposes mentioned in my note to you of the same date, such Agreement to 
be signed simultaneously with the Convention for Arbitration, and to be without 
prejudice to the questions to be submitted to the Arbitrators. I informed his Lord- 
ship, at the same time, that in handing me the note under reply you had assured 
me that the President was anxious that the Commission should be appointed in 
time to commence its work this season, and that your Government would, on that 
account, use their utmost efforts to expedite the signature of the Arbitration Con- 
vention. 
I now have the honour to inform you that I have this day received a telegraphic 
reply from his Lordship, in which, while conveying to me authority to sign the 
proposed Agreement for a modus vivendi contained in your note of the 9th June, Lord 
Salisbury desires me to place on record that it is signed by me on the clear under- 
standing that the Joint Commission will be appointed without delay. 
On that understanding, therefore, I shall be prepared to attend at the State 
Department, for the purpose of signing the Agreement, at such time as you may be 
good enough to appoint. 
I have, &c. 
(Signed) JULIAN PAUNCEFOTE. 
39 {Inclosure 2 in No. 63.] 
Mr. Wharton to Sir J. Pauncefote. 
DEPARTMENT OF STATE, Washington, June 13, 1891. 
Sir: The President directs me to say, in response to your note of this date, that 
his assent to the proposition for a Joint Commission, as expressed in my note of the 
9th June, was given in the expectation that both Governments would use every 
