No. 36.
Sir L. S.
Sackville West to Mr. Bayard.
[Note verbale.]
Her Majesty’s Government have just received the particulars of the claims for compensation on account of British sealers seized and warned off by the United States authorities in Behring Sea.
A just assessment of these claims appears to them difficult without investigation and verification, and they therefore wish to ascertain whether the United. States Government would be disposed to agree to a mixed commission, to be restricted to inquiring in each case whether compensation is due and the amount of such compensation.
Washington, April 18,
1888.