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Salisbury, a copy of the despatch from the Governor-General of Canada, 
forwarding a copy of a letter addressed to the Minister of Marine and 
Fisheries on behalf of the British Columbia Sealers’ Association, set- 
ting forth their objections to the passing of the Behring’s Sea Seal 
Fishery Act. 
61 I am also to inclose the draft of a reply which his Lordship 
proposes, with Lord Salisbury’s concurrence, to return to this 
despatch. 
Iam, &c. 
(Signed) Robert G. W. HERBERT. 
[Inclosure 1 in No. 100.] 
Lord Stanley of Preston to Lord Knutsford. 
GOVERNMENT Houss, Ottawa, June 24, 1891. 
My Lonrp: I have the honour to transmit herewith a copy of an approved Minute 
of the Privy Council, submitting copy of a letter addressed to the Minister of Marine 
and Iisheries on behalf of the British Columbia Sealers’ Association, setting forth the 
objections of that body to the passing of the Bill of the Imperial Parliament to 
prohibit sealing in the beliring’s Sea. 
Ihave, &c. 
(Signed) STANLEY OF PRESTON. 
[Inclosure 2 in No. 100.]} 
Report of a Committee of the Honowrable the Privy Council, approved by his Bacellency 
the Governor-General in Council, on the 22nd June, 1891. 
On a Report, dated the 17th June, 1891, from the Minister of Marine and Fisheries, 
stating that he has received from Messrs. E. B. Marvin and Co., of Victoria, British 
Columbia, a letter on behalf of the British Columbia Sealers’ Association, detailing 
the objections to the Bill then before the Imperial Parliament to prohibit sealing in 
Behring’s Sea, which a meeting of the owners of sealing-vessels and other interested 
parties discussed. 
The Minister observes that the Association anticipate the effect of the Bill passing 
in its present form will be ruinous to British subjects hitherto participating in the 
industry. 
They are much opposed to the stipulation allowing the lessees to take 7,500 seals 
for food for the natives, and assert that the natives employed by the lessees are taken 
from Oonalaska to the seal islands, and after the expiry of the killing-season are 
taken back to Oonalaska, a limited number only being left on the islands during the 
winter. 
If allowed to take 7,500, it is feared this permission would be used as a cloak to 
unlimited killing. They consider any close season adopted should be general, with- 
out any exception. 
The Minister further observes that in the last paragraph of the cemmunication 
appended, the Association ask to be allowed to send two competent men to represent 
their case before the Arbitrators. 
The Minister appends a copy of the letter in question, together with a copy of his 
reply thereto. 
The Committee, on the recommendation of the Minister of Marine and Fisheries, 
advise that your Excellency bemoved to transmita copy of this Minute to the Right 
Honourable the Secretary of State for the Colonies for the information of Her Majesty’s 
Government. 
All which is respectfully submitted for your Excellency’s approval. 
(Signed) JOHN J. McGEr, 
Clerk of the Privy Council, 
