Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 November 1878 — The Halifax Award. [ARTICLE]

The Halifax Award.

In pursuance of instructions from Secretary Evarts, the American Minister in London, Mr. Welsh, on the 21st of November, tendered the British Government, in the person of Lord Salisbury, the sum of $5,500,000 in gold, accompanying the payment with the following communication. The receipt of the payment was acknowledged by Lord Salisbury in due form : Legation of the United States, ) London, Nov. 21, 1878. | My Lord: I have been instructed by tlie President of the United States to tender to Her Majesty’s Government the sum of 95,500,000 in gold coin, this being the sum named by two concurring members of the Fisheries Commission, lately sitting at Halifax, under tho author ity imparted thereto by the Treaty of Washington, to be paid by the Government of the United States to the Government of Her Britannic Majesty. lam also instructed by the President to say that such payment is made upon the ground that the Government of the United States desires to place the maintenance of good faith in treaties and the security and value of arbitration hotwocn nations above all question in its relations with Her Britannic Majesty’s Government, as with all other Governments. Under this motive the Government of the United States decides to separate the question of withholding the payment from the considerations touching tho obligation of this payment which havo been presented to Her Majesty’s Government in correspondence, and which it reserves and insists upon. I am, besides, instructed by the President to say that the Government of the United States deems it of the greatest importance to the common and friendly interests of the two Governments in all future treatment of any questions relating to the North American fisheries that Her Britannic Majesty’s Government should be distinctly advised that the Government of the United States cannot accept the result of the Halifax Commission as furnishing any just measure of the value of the participation by our citizens m the inshore fisheries of the British provinces, and its protest against the actual payment now made being considered by Her Majesty's Government as in any sense an acquiescence in such measure, or as warranting any inference to that effect. I have, etc., John Welsh.