Mr. Gresham to Sir Julian Pauncefote.

Excellency: In reply to your excellency’s note of the 10th instant inclosing a memorandum of certain arrangements agreed upon between our respective Governments for giving effect during the year 1891 to the fur-seal fishery regulations prescribed by the award of the Bering Sea tribunal of Arbitration, I have the honor to state that I approve of the memorandum as containing a correct record of the arrangements agreed upon.

I have the honor to be, etc.,

W. Q. Gresham.