Mr. Hastings to Mr. Gresham.
Washington, August 22, 1894.
Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your communication of the 20th instant, on the subject of the regulations established on the eastern side of the North Pacific Ocean from the thirty-fifth [Page 221] degree of north latitude to the Bering’s Straits for the protection and preservation of the fur seal, and inviting the adhesion of the Government of Hawaii to the regulations prescribed by the award of the Tribunal of Arbitration concluded at Paris on August 15, 1893, between the Government of the United States and that of Great Britain.
In reply thereto, I beg to inform you that a copy of your communication, and the inclosures therewith, will at once be forwarded to my Government, and I venture to predict that the earliest possible action will be taken by the authorities at Honolulu in issuing the necessary orders to the masters of Hawaiian vessels and to citizens of the Hawaiian Republic to observe the regulations prescribed, and that every aid will be given the high contracting parties by legislation and otherwise, looking to the protection of the fur seal in the territory described.
With renewed assurances, etc.