APPENDIX TO CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 883 
No. 158. 
The Behring’s Sea Commissioners to the Marquis of Salishury.—( Received 
November 2.) 
Port WILLIAM, ONTARIO, October 19, 1891. 
My Lorp: With reference to your Lordship’s despatch of the 12th 
September last, respecting the limitation of the number of seals to be 
killed on the Pribyloff Islands this year, we have the honour to inform 
your Lordship that on the 18th instant we received a private letter 
from Sir Julian Pauncefote informing us that ‘The United States Gov- 
ernment have replied to our” (Her Majesty’s Government’s) ‘ complaint 
of the violation of the modus vivendi. They admit that Major Williams 
allowed no less than 12,071 seals to be killed. They do not say that 
they approve his action, but they merely give his explanations, and 
hope Her Majesty’s Government will be satisfied that he had no dispo- 
sition to violate the Agreement.” 
Major Williams informed us on the islands early in August that 
nearly 9,000 seals had been killed by that date, and that the killing 
would be stopped until the “stagey” season was over, but resumed in 
October. 
We therefore assume that 3,000 of the 12,071 are to be killed this 
autumn, and have this day addresssed to your Lordship a cypher tele- 
gram of which the following is a paraphrase: 
OCTOBER 19, 1891. 
Sir Julian Pauncefote informs us that the United States Government admit that 
permission has been given to kill 12,000 seals on the seal islands this year. We 
understand that about 3,000 of these remain to be killed this autumn; wherefore we 
hope that the United States Government have agreed to send instructions to the 
islands to stop killing at once until May 1892.—BaDEN-POWELL. 
We noticed in the newspapers a report that the United States reve- 
nue-cruizer “Rush,” on arrival at San Francisco, was unexpectedly 
ordered to return to the Pribyloff Islands in the early part of October. 
The United States Government thus had an opportunity, of which they 
possibly availed themselves, of sending to the seal islands the nee- 
essary orders to stop all further killing this year. We can hardly 
suppose that they would neglect so good an occasion, at all events to 
mitigate the effects of the misunderstanding of clause 2 of the modus 
vivendi, but we had ourselves no information as to any such action hay- 
ing been taken by the United States Government, and as Sir Julian 
Pauncefote did not mention the point we felt it our duty to at once 
communicate our views by telegraph to your Lordship. 
We have, &c. 
(Signed) GEORGE BADEN-POWELL, 
GEORGE M. Dawson. 
No. 159. 
The Behring’s Sea Commissioners to the Marquis of Salisbury.—( Received 
November 2.) 
OTTAWA, October 21, 1891. 
My Lorp: We have the honour to transmit, for your Lordship’s con- 
sideration, a copy of a Memorial which was handed to us on the 14th 
instant by the Sealers’ Association of Vancouver, stating their special 
