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employed in the business. The seal is a migratory animal and does not belong to 
any one nation. This outcry by the American Government of preserving seal-life is 
well understood by us as meaning funds for Uncle Sam. Let the Dominion of Canada 
have ashare. They have as much right as the other nations. If Canada will 
63 only protect her subjects in matters of this kind, and not allow Uncle Sam to 
take all the loaves and fishes, she will be a prosperous country. Having laid 
the matter before you in rather a rough manner, we kindly ask your earliest con- 
sideration in this matter, and would “call your ‘attention to the facts stated, not 
prejudicially, but in a ealm and deliberate m: inner, fully realizing our position to be 
bankruptcy and ruin to all engaged, if carried out. 
We therefore humbly ask, on behalf of the sealers, that you will kindly use your 
influence to have the Arbitration Committee allow the Sealers’ Association to send 
two competent men, selected by them, as representatives on our behalf. 
We have, &c, 
(On behalf of the Sealers’ Association), 
(Signed) i. B. MaRVIN AND Co. 
_ [Inclosure 4 in No. 100.] 
Mr. Tupper to Messrs. Marvin and Co. 
OTTAWA, June 13, 1891, 
GENTLEMEN: I beg to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 5th instant. 
I observe what you say touching the proposal that the lessees of the United States 
Government may, pending a close season, take 7,500 seals for food for the natives on 
the Pribyloff Islands, and your suggestion that abuses might follow the concession 
of such a privilege, and the expression of your desire that, if a close season be 
adopted, it should be general without any exception. 
I have considered the arrangements which you advance in support of this contention. 
I also note your views touching the proposed compensation of British citizens, 
who may suffer from the enforcement of a close season, and have to inform you that 
I have inclosed a copy of your communication to his Excellency the Governor-Gen- 
eral, and have requested his Excellency to cause your views to be communicated to 
the Imperial authorities as soon as possible. 
Yours, &c. 
(Signed) CHARLES H. TUPPER. 
{Inclosure 5 in No. 100.] 
Draft of Despatch to Lord Stanley of Preston.* 
DOWNING STREET, July 8, 1891. 
My Lorp: I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch of the 
24th ultimo, transmitting copy of an approved Minute of the Privy Council, inclos- 
ing copy of a letter addressed to the Minister of Marine and Fisheries by the British 
Columbian Sealers’ Association, in which their objections to the Imperial Behring’s 
Sea Seal Fishery Act are set for ‘th. 
With regard to the anticipations of the Association as to the loss likely to be 
suffered by British subjects through the operation of the Act, [ have already informed 
your Lordship of the decision of “Her Majesty’s Government with regard to the pay- 
‘ment of compensation in such cases, and need only refer you to the communications 
which have already passed on the subject. 
The only other question raised in the letter from the Association which appears to 
call for notice is their wish to be heard before the Arbitration Commission. 
As you are aware, a Joint Commission of Experts has been appointed to examine 
all questions connected with seal life and the fur-seal industry for submission to the 
Arbitrators, and I request that you will cause the Association to be informed that 
they should lay any statements they may wish to make before this C ommission of 
Experts in the first instance, and that, in the event of its being found necessary to 
call evidence before the Arbitrators in addition to that which will be presented by 
the Commission of Experts, Her Majesty’s Government will not tail to bear their 
wishes in mind. 
T have, &c. 
Risen icity $$$ $ret 
* This despatch was seut on July 16, 1891, 
