854 APPENDIX TO CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 
an approved Minute of his Privy Council, concurring in a Report by 
the Minister of Marine and Fisheries on the subject of certain Reports 
and papers relating to the conditions of seal life in the Pribyloff Islands. 
Lam, We. 
(Signed) R. H. MEADE. 
[Inclosure 1 in No. 132.] 
Lord Stanley of Preston to Lord Knutsford. 
STANLEY House, New Richmond, P. Q., August 18, 1891. 
My Lonp: I caused to be referred, for the consideration of my Government, a copy 
of adespatch from Her Majesty’s Minister at Washington, covering copies of Reports 
of the United States Government Agents stationed on the Pribyloff Islands, which 
were laid before Congress in February last; also an extract from the ‘Cleveland 
News and Herald” of the 4th May, 1891, containing the introduction to Professor 
Elliot’s voluminous Report on the condition of seal life in the Pribyloff Islands 
during the summer of 1890, which did not accompany those presented to Congress; 
and I have now the honour to transmit to your Lordship a copy of an approved 
Minute of the Privy Council concurring in a Report appended thereto by the Minister 
of Marine and Fisheries on the subject. 
I have also the honour to inclose a copy of the above despatch from Sir Julian 
Pauncefote; and for the inclosures I would refer your Lordship to the British print, 
“United States No. 2 (1891):” ‘(Further Correspondence respecting the Behring’s 
Sea Seal Fisheries,” p. 12, Appendix, Inclosure in No. 1; also p. 53, Inclosure 2. 
Ihave, &e. 
(Signed) STANLEY OF PRESTON. 
{Inclosure 2in No. 132.] 
Report of a Committee of the Honourable the Privy Council, approved by his Excellency 
the Governor-General in Council on the 5rd August, 1891. 
The Committee of the Privy Council have had under consideration a despatch, 
dated the 22nd May, 1891, from Her Majesty’s Minister at Washington, covering 
copies of Reports of the United States Government Agents stationed in the Pribyloft 
Islands, which were laid before Congress in February last; also an extract from the 
‘““Cleveland News and Herald” of the 4th May, 1891, containing the introduction to 
Professor Elliot’s voluminous Report on the condition of seal life on the Pribyloff 
Islands during the summer of 1890, which did not accompany those presented to 
Congress. 
The Minister of Marine and Fisheries, to whom the despatch was referred, submits 
the annexed Report, dated the 25th July, 1891, upon the subject under consideration. 
The Committee concur therein, and on the recommendation of the Minister of 
Marine and Fisheries advise that your Excellency be moved to forward a 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. MCGEE, 
Clerk of the Privy Council 
84 {Inclosure 3 in No. 132.) 
Report. 
To his Excellency the Governor-General in Council. 
The Undersigned has had referred to him a despatch from Her Majesty’s Minister 
at Washington, dated the 22nd May, 1891, covering copies of Reports of the United 
States Government Agents stationed on the Pribyloff Islands, which were laid 
before Congress in February last; also an extract from the ‘‘ Cleveland News and 
Herald” of the 4th May, 1891, containing the introduction to Professor Elliot’s 
voluminous Report on the condition of seal life on the Pribyloff Islands during the 
summer of 1890, which did not accompany those presented to Congress. 
