Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 7, 1896, and the Annual Report of the Secretary of State

Lord Gough to Mr. Olney.

British Embassy,
Newport, R. I., October 7, 1896.

Sir: Whereas it was agreed by Article I of the Bering Sea claims convention between Her Majesty the Queen of Great Britain and Ireland and the United States of America, signed at Washington on February 8, 1896, that a commissioner should be appointed by each of the high contracting parties, I have now been instructed by Her Majesty’s principal secretary of state for foreign affairs to notify the United States Government of the appointment of the Hon. George Edwin King, a justice of the supreme court of Canada, to be Her Majesty’s commissioner under the above-named convention.

I have also the honor to inform you that Mr. Justice King’s address is, Supreme Court of Canada, Ottawa, Canada.

I have, etc.,

Gough.