Foreign Relations of the United States, 1894, Appendix I, Chinese-Japanese War, Enforcement of Regulation Respective to Fur Seals, Mosquito Territory, Affairs at Bluefields, Claim of Antonio Maximo Mora, Import Duties on Certain Products of Colombia, Haiti, and Venezuela, Affairs in the Samoan Islands

Sir Julian Pauncefote to Mr. Gresham.

Washington, April 12, 1894.

Dear Mr. Gresham: With reference to my previous letter of the 5th instant respecting the meaning and effect of section 7 (2) of the bill now before Parliament in England, to carry out the Bering Sea award, I beg to inform you that I have received a telegram from the Earl of Kimberley in which he inquired whether you are aware that the publication of the schedule provisions mentioned in that clause means the publication of the provisions of the award and not the publication of the act of Parliament to give effect to them.

This further explanation will, I should think, dispose of all objections to the phraseology of the clause.

I am, etc.,

Julian Pauncefote.

[Inclosure.]

In clause 7, subclause 2, of the British bill the following phrase occurs:

“Where * * * it is proved that the ship sailed from its port of departure before the scheduled provisions were published there,” etc. The publication referred to is that of the provisions of the award, not that of the bill.