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. 58.
Mr. Rives to Mr. Garland.

Department of State,
Washington, October 17, 1888.

Sir: Referring to your letter of the 11th instant, in relation to the postponement of the sale of the British schooners condemned for taking seals in Behring Sea in 1887, I have the honor to inclose herewith a copy of a note received yesterday from the British minister, bearing date the 12th instant, on the same subject; and shall be glad to receive an expression of your views on the arrangement proposed by the British Government in regard to the disposition of the vessels.

I have, etc.,

G. L. Rives.