Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the President, December 3, 1888, Part II

No. 34.
Mr. Bayard to Sir L. S. Sackville West.

Department of State,
Washington, March 30, 1888.

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 26th instant in which you inform the Department that the action of Her Majesty’s Government in respect to the proposal of this Government, for an arrangement to protect the fur seal from extermination in Behring Sea, is not to be taken as an admission of the jurisdiction of the United States over Behring Sea, nor as affecting the claims which Her Majesty’s Government will have to present on account of the seizure of certain British vessels in those waters.

I have, etc.,

T. F. Bayard.