Sir Julian Pauncefote to Mr. Gresham.
Sir: With reference to my note of the 8th instant and to your reply thereto of the 9th instant, I have the honor to inclose copies of the British Bering Sea award act and of the explanatory map therein mentioned, which you are good enough to state will be distributed by the United States cruisers among British sealers in the manner requested by Her Majesty’s Government.
I have also the honor to acknowledge the receipt of the amended naval instructions issued by the Secretary of the Navy on the 4th instant to the commanding officers of the United States fleet in Bering Sea, and of the regulations attached thereto, which I shall lose no time in transmitting to my Government.
I have, etc.,