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. 42.
Sir L. S. Sackville West to Mr. Bayard.

[Memorandum.]

Washington, May 28, 1888. (Received May 29.)

In the cases of the condemned Behring Sea sealing vessels and their cargoes, it appears that the proctors for some (and possibly all) of the British sealers failed to take an appeal from the decrees of condemnation entered by the district court at Sitka; consequently they have lost the benefit of the Attorney-General’s order permitting release of the property on bond pending decision of the appeals, and as the decrees have become final, have no other than a diplomatic remedy left.