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claims for compensation on account of the Proclamation issued for this | 
year against the taking of fur-seal in Behring’s Sea. ; 
109 We informed the Association that the subject was one outside 
the precise scope of our Commission, but that we would have 
pleasure in laying the Memorial before your Lordship. | 
We have also, in compliance with the request of the Sealers’ Associa- 
tion, transmitted a copy of the Memorial to the Governor-General of 
Canada. 
We have, &e. 
(Signed) GEORGE BADEN-POWELL. 
GEORGE M, DAWSON. 
{Inclosure in No. 159.] 
The Vancouver Sealers’ Association to the Behring’s Sea Commissioners. 
[No DATE.] 
GENTLEMEN: We, the undersigned owners of the sealing fleet of the city of Van-e 
couver, have the honour to make the following representations: 
That while all owners of sealing-vessels in the province must have suffered from 
the operation of the modus vivendi, we, the owners of the sealing fleet helonging to 
the city of Vancouver, have probably felt the hardship the most severely from the 
reason that the industry is entirely a new one, the whole fleet of vessels having been 
built within the last few months, and equipped by us for the sole purpose of pro- 
ceeding to Behring’s Sea in the past season. 
That at the commencement and during the construction of these vessels we had no 
reason to suppose that any restriction would be placed upon their movements. 
That having completed them, we in good faith went to the great expense of fitting 
them out for the fisheries, and in fact had no intention [? intimation] of the effects 
of the modus vivendi until after their arrival in Behring’s Sea. 
That the industry being a new one with us, and not having the profitable results : 
. of previous years as an offset, we, as before stated, are the greatest sufferers by the 
action of the Government in this respect. 
We would also call your attention to the fact that the hunters employed in the 
above-named vessels were engaged for the voyage, and received no other recompense 
than an amount per skin saved, as agreed upon, and consequently they have made a 
claim upon the owners for compensation based upon earnings of former years. 
We have not thought it necessary to burden you with further details of our case, 
as you must be already fully cognizant of it, but shall be glad at any time to supply 
any information in our power, 
We have, &c. 
(Signed) D. OPPENHEIMER, President. 
(And others.) 
No. 160. 
Sir J. Pauncefote to the Marquis of Salisbury.—(Received November 2.) 
WASHINGTON, October 23, 1891. 
My Lorp: With reference to my telegram of the 19th instant, I 
have the honour to inclose copies of notes which I have exchanged with 
the Acting Secretary of State, recording the adoption by both Govern- 
ments of theseven Articlesof the Behring’s Sea Arbitration Agreement 
as finally settled. 
Mr. Wharton informed me yesterday that the President is of opinion 
that no formal instrument should be signed until all the other provis- 
ions relating to the number and choice of Arbitrators and the time 
and place of their sitting, We., have been settled, so that the whole may 
be embodied in a Convention to be laid before Congress. 
