APPENDIX TO CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 881 
No. 154. 
The Marquis of Salisbury to the Behring’s Sea Commissioners. 
FOREIGN OFFICE, October 30, 1891. 
GENTLEMEN: With reference to your despatch of the 5th August 
last, [ transmit to you herewith a copy of a despatch from Her Majesty’s 
Minister at Washington,* inclosing correspondence with the United 
States Government respecting the number of seals killed during the 
recent fishing season in Behring’s Sea. ° 
I shall be glad to receive any observations you may have to make on 
this despatch. 
Iam, &c. 
(Signed) SALISBURY. 
107 No. 155. 
Foreign Office to Sir G. Baden-Powell. 
FOREIGN OFFICE, October 30, 1891. 
Sir: Iam directed by the Marquis of Salisbury to acknowledge the 
receipt of your Memorandum, dated the 10th August, on the limitation 
of the number of fur-seals to be taken on the Pribyloff Islands during 
the season of 1891. 
His Lordship desires me to convey to you his thanks for this commu- 
nication. 
Iam, &c. 
(Signed) P. CURRIE. 
No. 156. 
Sir J. Pauncefote to the Marquis of Salisbury.—(Received October 31.) 
[ Telegraphic. ] 
WASHINGTON, October 31, 1891. 
I saw Mr. Blaine to day on the subject of the Behring’s Sea arbitra- 
tion. He told me that he approved of my last proposal to the effect 
that the seven Arbitration Articles and the Article providing for a 
Joint Commission should be signed at once provisionally, with a view 
to their being subsequently embodied in formal documents. He added 
that he was ready to proceed at once to discuss with me the Articles of 
the Arbitration Convention which still remained unsettled respecting 
the appointment of Arbitrators and other matters, and he asked me 
whether I could give him any information as to your Lordship’s views 
on this subject. On my expressing my inability to do so, he threw out 
the suggestion that it would be best, in view of all the circumstances of 
the case, if the Court of Arbitrators were to be composed of English 
and Ameriéan jurists of repute, two on each side, with an Umpire to 
be chosen by some foreign Power to be agreed on between the two 
Governments. He said he would have no objection to Holland, Swe- 
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