APPENDIX TO CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 865 
No. 142. 
Sir J. Pauncefote to the Marquis of Salisbury.—(Received October 19.) 
{Telegraphic.] 
» WASHINGTON, October 19, 1891. 
With reference to your Lordship’s telegram of the 15th instant, I 
addressed a note to the Acting Secretary of State on the 17th instant, 
in the sense of my private letter to him, and officially repeated the pro- 
posal made by your Lordship. 
I called by request at the State Department to-day, and Mr. Wharton 
asked me informally to submit two alternative clauses to your Lordship. 
A disclaimer is contained in the first clause of any admission of the 
liability of Great Britain being implied from the terms of the President’s 
clause 7. 
The second is a clause to be substituted for the President’s clause, 
and is in the sense of your Lordship’s proposal. 
The text of the two clauses follows: 
[See Inclosure 1 in Sir J. Pauncefote’s despatch of October 23, 1891: Inclosure 1 in 
No. 160, infra.] 
Will your Lordship authorize me to inform the United States Gov- 
ernment that you accept the second clause, in which case they will at 
once propose it in answer to my note of the 17th instant? 
It will be left to further negotiation to settle the choice of Arbitrators 
and place of sitting. 
No. 143. 
Memorandum by Sir G. Baden-Powell on the Limitation of the Number 
of Fur-seals to be taken on the Pribyloff Islands in 1891.—( Received at 
the Foreign Office, October 20.) 
LIMITATION EXCEEDED. 
By Agreement between the United States and Great Britain not 
more than 7,500 seals were to be taken on the Pribyloff Islands in 
1891. 
2. On visiting the Pribyloff Islands in July and August 1891, the 
British Commissioners found that since the opening of the season and 
up to the 4th August about 9,100 seals had been taken, and that it was 
in contemplation to kill about 2,900 more before the close of the season, 
making a total for the year of 12,000. 
3. The explanation of this excessive killing is to be found in the 
interpretation placed by the authorities in the seal islands on the terms 
of the modus vivendi of June 1891. 
4, The clause (No. 2) of the modus vivendi runs thus: “The United 
States Government will prohibit seal-killing for the same period ” 
94 (until May 1892) ‘“‘in the same part of Behring’s Sea, and on the 
shores and islands thereof the property of the United States (in 
excess of 7,500 to be taken on the islands for the subsistence and care 
of the natives). . . .” 
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