Mr. Uhl to Mr. Bayard.

Sir: I have received your dispatch of the 11th instant, concerning the enforcement of the Bering Sea regulations and calling attention to the use of the word “exclusive” in section 1 of the act approved April 6, 1894.

For your information, I inclose copy of the Department’s note of the 18th instant1 on this subject to the British ambassador at the capital, together with six copies of an act of Congress, approved April 24, 1894, wherein the error referred to is corrected.

I am, etc.,

Edwin F. Uhl,
Acting Secretary.