948 APPENDIX TO CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 
As an alternative course we are also willing, after the ratification of 
the Treaty, to prohibit sealing in the disputed waters, if vessels be 
excepted from the prohibition which produce certificate that they have 
given security for such damages as the Arbitrators may assess, in case 
of a decision adverse to Great Britain; the Arbitrators to receive the 
necessary authority in that behalf. In this case the restriction of slaugh- 
ter on the islands ‘vill not, in point of equity, be necessary. 
Her Majesty’s Government are unable to see any other than one of 
these two methods of restricting seal-hunting in the disputed waters 
during the Arbitration, which will be equitable to both parties. 
The Marquis of Salisbury to Sir J. Pauncefote. 
[Telegraphic. ] 
FOREIGN OFFICE, March 26, 1892. 
With further reference to your telegram of the 25rd instant. 
Iam not prepared to admit, as I gather that the President thinks, 
that we have objected to the Arbitrators having jurisdiction as to 
damages inflicted in the past by the party against whom the award is 
given. I only objected to make Her Majesty’s Government liable for 
acts which they have not committed. Iam ready to consent to a refer- 
ence on this point in the following terms: 
That in case the Arbitrators shail decide in favour of the British 
Government, that Government may ask them, further, to decide whether 
the United States Government have since 1885 taken any action in 
Behring’s Sea directly inflicting a wrongful loss on British subjects, 
and, if so, to assess the damages incurred thereby. 
That in case the Arbitrators shall decide in favour of the Govern- 
ment of the United States, that Government may ask them to decide, 
further, whether the British Government have since 1885 taken any 
action in Behring’s Sea directly inflicting a wrongful loss on the 
United States or its lessees, and, if so, to assess the damage incurred 
thereby. 
166 APPENDIX. 
Colonial Office to Foreign Office.—(Received March 2.) 
DOWNING STREET, March 2, 1892. 
Sir: With reference to previous correspondence, I am directed by 
Lord Knutsford to transmit to you, to be laid before the Marquis of 
Salisbury, a copy of a despatch trom the Governor-General of Canada, 
forwarding copy of an Order in Council, to which are appended affida- 
vits taken before the Collector of Customs at Victoria, British Columbia, 
with regard to certain points in connection with pelagic sealing. 
lam, We. 
(Signed) JOHN BRAMSTON, 
