Sir Julian Pauncefote to Mr. Gresham.
Dear Mr. Gresham: With reference to our conversation of this morning respecting section 7 of the British act to give effect to the Bering Sea award, I have much pleasure in informing you that I have just received a telegram from the Earl of Kimberley which will, I trust, remove allmisapprehension as to the meaning and effect of that provision.
Lord Kimberley desires me to give you the assurance that the clause in question will not prevent the seizure of British sealers violating the regulations of the award, and that the question of notice will only arise at the trial. In fact such sealers will be dealt with by the British [Page 168] cruisers as if they had received notice of the regulations, audit will be left to the court to decide the question of notice as affecting only the liability of the defendants to penalties. I am to add that the instructions to the British cruisers will be explicit in the above sense.
I remain, etc.,