834 APPENDIX TO CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 
No. 106. 
The Behring’s Sea Commissioners to the Marquis of Salisbury.—( Received 
July 20.) 
Orjrawa, July 7, 1891. 
My Lorp: We have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your 
Lordship’s despatch of the 24th June, informing us that the Queen has 
been graciously pleased to appoint us to be her Commissioners for the 
purpose of inquiring into the conditions of seal life in Behring’s Sea 
and other parts of the North Pacific Ocean, and inclosing Her Majesty’s 
Commission under the sign manual to that effect. 
We have carefully noted the several instructions contained in your 
Lordship’s despatch under reply, and trust that, acting under these 
instructions, we shall successfully bring to a conclusion the matters 
intrusted to our charge. 
We may add, that Mr. Ashley Froude commenced his duties as See- 
retary to the Commission on the 25th June. 
We have, &c. 
(Signed) GEORGE BADEN-POWELL. 
GEORGE M. DAWSON, 
No. 107. 
The Behring’s Sea Commissioners to the Marquis of Salisbury.—( Received 
July 20.) 
Orrawa, July 7, 1891. 
My Lorp: As your Lordship has been already informed by a telegram 
from Queenstown, dated the 28th June, your Lordship’s despatch of the 
27th June, stating that formal permission to visit the Pribyloff Islands 
will be handed to us by the United States authorities, has been duly 
received. ; 
66 We have also to report that Mr. Consul Fraser handed to us 
at New York, on the 5th instant, a letter from the Treasury 
Department at Washington, of which a copy is inclosed, for your Lord- 
Ship’s information, empowering us to visit the Pribyloff Islands for the 
purposes of our mission. 
We have, &e. 
(Signed) GEORGE BADEN-POWELL. 
GEORGE M. DAWSON. 
{Inclosure in No. 107.] 
Mr. Spaulding to Mr. Williams. 
TREASURY DEPARTMENT, Washington, June 25, 1891. 
SIR: The 4th section of the modus vivendi respecting the fur-seal fisheries in Beh- 
ring’s Sea, concluded on the 15th instant, provides as follows: 
“In order to facilitate such proper inquiries as Her Majesty’s Government may 
desire to make with a view to the presentation of the case of that Government before 
Arbitrators, and in expectation that an agreement for arbitration may be arrived at, 
it is agreed that suitable persons designated by Greai Britain will be permitted at 
any time, upon application, to visit or ‘to remain upon the seal islands during the 
present sealing season for that purpose.” 
As it appears from a communication, dated the 23rd instant, from the Honourable 
the Secretary of State, that Sir George Baden-Powell, M. P., and Professor George 
Mercer Dawson have been appointed Commissioners on behalf of Her Britannic 
