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

Mr. Mezey to Mr. Gresham.

Imperial and Royal Austro-Hungarian Legation,
Washington, August 22, 1894. (Received August 22.)

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 20th instant on the subject of the regulations established on the eastern side of the North Pacific Ocean from the thirty-fifth degree of north latitude to the Bering Straits, for the protection and preservation of the fur-seal species.

In reply to it I have the honor to inform you, sir, that, in compliance with your desire, I have referred the matter to the Imperial and Royal Government for its adhesion to the regulations prescribed by the award of the Tribunal of Arbitration constituted under Article I of the treaty concluded between the United States and Great Britain the 29th of February, 1892.

I avail, etc.,

Mezey.