Mr. Foster to Sir Julian Pauncefote.
Washington, December 6, 1892.
Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt to-day of your note of the 5th instant, by which you inform me that the Canadian government has accepted the draft agreement for the preservation of the fisheries in the waters contiguous to Canada and the United States proposed in my note to Mr. Herbert, October 4th last.
This reply consequently completes the agreement by exchange of notes as proposed by my communication on the 4th of October last, and fixes this day as the date of the agreement.
[Page 327]I have much pleasure in giving immediate effect to this agreement so far as depends upon the executive power, by informing you that the President has appointed as the representative expert of the United States for the purposes of the stipulated joint investigation; Mr. Richard Rathbun, of the United States Fish Commission.
I beg that you will advise me of the name of the expert to be appointed on behalf of her Majesty’s Government in order that Mr. Rathbun may be instructed to confer with his Canadian colleague as to the time of meeting and plan of operations.
I have, etc.,