No. 4.
Mr. Bayard to Mr. McLane.*

No. 293.]

Sir: I inclose herewith, for your information, two printed copies of an instruction of this date to E. J. Phelps, esquire, United States minister [Page 1826] at London, in response to a dispatch from him, in which it was stated that Lord Salisbury had expressed acquiescence in a proposal made by me for an agreement between the United States and Great Britain in regard to the adoption of concurrent regulations for the preservation of fur seals in Behring Sea from extermination by destruction at improper seasons and by improper methods by the citizens of either country.

I am, etc.,

T. F. Bayard.
  1. Identic instructions were sent to the United States ministers to Germany, Russia, and Sweden and Norway.
  2. For this instruction see infra, No. 8.