. Message from the President of the United States transmitting a letter of the Secretary of State, with the correspondence relative to the proposed fisheries treaty [microform]. Fishery law and legislation; Fishery law and legislation; Fisheries; Territorial waters; Seizure of vessels and cargoes; Pêche commerciale; Pêche commerciale; Pêche commerciale; Eaux territoriales; Prises maritimes. i 208 ALLEGED OUTUAUE UI'ON AMKKICAN I'lSHERMEN. Document No. 18. Mr. EvartH to Mr. llopinn. • ' , V • . [Tolograui.] , AVASiiiNaTON, February 5, 1880. HoppiN, (JhargS, Ijondon: (Directing; him to inquire j
. Message from the President of the United States transmitting a letter of the Secretary of State, with the correspondence relative to the proposed fisheries treaty [microform]. Fishery law and legislation; Fishery law and legislation; Fisheries; Territorial waters; Seizure of vessels and cargoes; Pêche commerciale; Pêche commerciale; Pêche commerciale; Eaux territoriales; Prises maritimes. i 208 ALLEGED OUTUAUE UI'ON AMKKICAN I'lSHERMEN. Document No. 18. Mr. EvartH to Mr. llopinn. • ' , V • . [Tolograui.] , AVASiiiNaTON, February 5, 1880. HoppiN, (JhargS, Ijondon: (Directing; him to inquire jit what time an anijA'or in reaix'ct of the Fortune Bay claims might bo exi)ectod, and to express the great cliiigriu of this governmeut that no answer had already been made.) JiVAUTS,. Document No. 19. Mr. Jloppn to Mr. IJvartn. No. 143.] Legation ov the United States, London, February 7, 1880. (Received February li4.) Siu: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt yesterday of joiir dispatch in cipher relating to the great delay of the British Governt'ieiit in answering our claim for the Fortune Bay damages. 1 knew Unit Lord Salisbury had been seriously ill for some time past at llatliild, antl I ascertained at the foreign office, where 1 made immediate iiKniiiies, that his illness still continued and that he was not attending to biisiiiesH. I therefore made an appointment with Sir Julian Pauncefote, who is in charge of the foreign office, Lord Tenderden being absent, tor an inter view to-day. I have just returned from this interview. I called his attention in the course of it to the fact that our claim wus presented as early as the 13th of August; that Lord Salisbury promised on the IGth it should receive immediate attention; that his lordslii|. assured us on the 24th of November that an answer should be sent at as early a date as possible, and that nearly two months and a half liiid now elapsed without our having been favored with one. 1 then expressed the chagrin
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