900 APPENDIX TO CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 
account of the Company this year they would provide funds very much 
“more than sufficient to recompense them for their outlay in taking 
care of the natives” for this entire year, which would be in direct con- 
travention of the expressed intentions and wishes of the President of 
the United States. 
We have, &c. 
(Signed) GEORGE BADEN-POWELL, 
. GEORGE M. DAWSON. 
124 No. 177. 
The Marquis of Salisbury to Sir J. Pauncefote. 
FOREIGN OFFICE, December 5, 1891, 
Str: I have received your despatch of the 23rd ultimo, inclosing copy 
of a note which, in compliance with instructions contained in my tele- 
gram of the 22nd ultimo, you have addressed to Mr. Blaine, setting 
forth the two reservations made by Her Majesty’s Government with 
regard to clause 6 of the Behring’s Sea Arbitration Agreement. 
I have to state, in reply, that the note addressed by you to Mr. Blaine 
is approved by Her Majesty’s Government. 
lam, &e. 
(Signed) SALISBURY. 
No: 78. 
Sir J. Pauncefote to the Marquis of Salisbury.—( Received December 7.) 
WASHINGTON, November 27, 1891. 
My Lorp: With reference to my telegram of the 24th instant, I have 
the honour now to report in greater detail what took place at the inter- 
view which I had with Mr. Blaine on that day respecting the two 
reservations which your Lordship instructed me to make before signing 
the clauses for insertion in the Behring’s Sea Agreement. 
Mr. Blaine, whe had before him the note which I had addressed to him 
on the subject, and of which I transmitted a copy to your Lordship in my 
despatch of the 25rd instant, took exception to both reservations, which 
he said he could not advise the President to accept. I said that these 
reservations imposed no new conditions whatever, and were intended 
simply to obviate any doubt as to the meaning and effect of the 6th 
clause, and thus to prevent any disagreement at a later stage. 
Mr. Blaine asked what was the object of the first reservation. I 
replied that the 6th clause appeared to me to imply that Regulations 
for the control of pelagie sealing were necessary—a proposition which 
was opposed to the contention of Canada—and I presumed that it was 
on that ground that your Lordship desired to make it clear that it 
would be open to the Arbitrators to hold that no such Regulations at 
all were necessary. 
Mr. Blaine observed that he did not think the language of the clause 
precluded such a finding. He proceeded to express the strongest 
ubjection to the second reservation, which he said was calculated to 
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