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. Patenôtre to Mr. Gresham.

[Translation.]

Embassy of the French Republic in the United States,
Washington, October 5, 1894.

Mr. Secretary of State: In advising me, as you did by your note of August 20, of the enforcement of the new regulations adopted by the Washington and London cabinets in order to secure, in conformity with the decisions of the Paris Tribunal of Arbitration, the protection of fur seals in Bering Sea, you were pleased to inform me of the wish entertained by the Federal Government that the Government of the Republic should render these regulations obligatory upon French citizens. The minister of foreign affairs, to whom I transmitted your communication, informs me that the question has just been submitted to the competent authorities for examination. As soon as a decision shall have been reached in the matter, I shall have the honor to communicate it to you.

Be pleased to accept, Mr. Secretary of State the assurance of my very high consideration.

Patenôtre.