820 APPENDIX TO CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 
You will already have been informed of the contents of these tele- 
grams by the Governor-General of Canada, to whom they have been 
repeated by telegraph. In accordance with the assurance given to the 
United States Government, I have to request that on your arrival at 
the seal islands you will as much as possible co-operate with the Com- 
inissioners appointed by the Government of the United States to inquire 
into this subject. 
lam, We. 
(Signed) SALISBURY. 
No. 87. 
Colonial Office to Foreign Office.—(Received July 8.) 
DOWNING STREET, July 7, 1891. 
Str: Lam directed by Lord Knutsford to transmit to you, for the 
information of the Marquis of Salisbury, the inclosed “Supplement No. 
1 to the Annual Report of the Department of Fisheries,” which has 
been received from the Governor-General of Canada. 
Iam to request that you will call his Lordship’s attention to the 
passages relating to the seal fisheries contained at pp. 182-4 of this 
volume. 
Tam, We. 
(Signed) JOHN BRAMSTON. 
{Inclosure in No. 87.] 
Extract from Supplement No. 1 to the Annual Report of the Department of Fisheries. 
FISHERIES STATEMENTS AND INSPECTORS’ REPORTS FOR THE YEAR 1890. 
[Printed by order of the Canadian Parliament. ] 
Marine Furs. 
The value of the marine fur products is 510,111 dollars, being an increase of 157,661 
dollars over the past year, due to the following causes:—An advance of 1 dollar per 
skin in the price of fur seals, an increase of 11,181 skins in the catch, and an increase 
of 3,200 in the catch of hair-seals. 
IL append a schedule, showing the detailed catch of the sealing fleet for the season 
of 1890: 
