File includes various official documents and reports related to seal fishing or created in relation to a mission to Washington regarding framing of sealing regulations in the Behring Sea, including: certified copy of the confidential report of a Committee of the Hon. Privy Council, on the Behring Sea and fur-seal fisheries, 1893 (26 pages); Reports on the Arbitrations and regulations of the fur seal fishery, by C. H. Tupper; Notice relating to Permits and Passes on fur-seal fishery; Confidential Report of the "British Agent to the Russian Seal Islands under the provisional agreement entered between her Majesty's government and that of Russia for the protection of Seal fisheries," Dr. Dawson, 1893 (108 pages with appendices).
File includes: "Notes on Russia Dispatch"; "Suggested Criticism on Proposed U.S. Discussion"; Confidential Report on the Behring Sea and various notes; memo by Robinson QC; memorandum as to British Argument; and a memorandum by Sir Thomas Sanderson.
File includes 2 tables of fur sale prices for Hudson's Bay; 6 letters (including correspondence between the marine ministry and fisheries and C. H. Tupper); an extract from "The Seal-Island of Alaska" by Henry W. Eliott (1881); the report "Ordinance for the Protection of the Buffalo" (1877); the document "Short Skeleton of Reply to 'Property' Claim" by George Mercer Dawson (1892); and a chief contentions report of the U.S. Case entitled "Respecting the Seal and Seal Life".
File includes notes on the Behring Sea Arbitration; Notes on Hooper's Report; and documentation pertaining the regulations, damages and present state of the controversy re: US case.
File includes a draft of the US counter case entitled "Seventh Article of the Treaty of Arbitration"; and notes on the Pacific Ocean and Behring Sea notes on the general objects of trade.
File includes memoranda; documentation from Customs Canada re: sealing season; a confidential report: Analysis of Furrier's Evidence; and meeting notes on the Behring Sea Arbitration.
