Alaskan Boundary Tribunal: The Argument of the United States Before the Tribunal Convened at London Under the Provisions of the Treaty Between the United States of America and Great Britain Concluded January 24, 1903U.S. Government Printing Office, 1903 - 220 sider |
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56th degree Alaska B. C. App bays and inlets body of water boundary line Britain British Atlas chain of mountains Chilkat Chilkat Inlet claim coast line coast of America contended continent convention Count Lieven Count Nesselrode crest degree of longitude degree of north distance establishments extend frontier Government head of Lynn head of Portland Hudson's Bay Company intended interior waters jurisdiction land lease letter line drawn line of demarcation lisière Lynn Canal mainland coast marine leagues meant navigation negotiations north latitude northwest coast Observatory Inlet ocean parties Pearse Island Portland Canal Portland Channel possession Prince of Wales proposed question reference Russian plenipotentiaries Russian-American Company says shore shows sinuosities Sir Charles Bagot sovereignty Stikine River Strait strip summit survey thence tion trade treaty of 1825 U. S. C. App U. S. C. C. App Ukase understanding understood United Vancouver Wales Island word coast word côte
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Side 98 - The line of demarcation between the possessions of the High Contracting Parties, upon the coast of the continent, and the islands of America to the north-west, shall be drawn in the manner following: Commencing from the southernmost point of the island called Prince of Wales...
Side 37 - That whenever the summit of the mountains which extend in a direction parallel to the coast from the 56th degree of north latitude to the point of intersection of the 141st degree of west longitude shall prove to be at the distance of more than ten marine leagues from the ocean, the limit between the British possessions and the line of coast which is to belong to Russia, as above mentioned...
Side 46 - It is agreed that any country that may be claimed by either party on the north-west coast of America, westward of the Stony Mountains, shall, together with its harbors, bays, and creeks, and the navigation of all rivers within the same, be free and open for the term of ten years from the date of the signature of the present convention, to the vessels, citizens, and subjects, of the two powers...
Side 37 - ... shall prove to be at the distance of more than ten marine leagues from the ocean, the limit between the British possessions and the line of coast which is to belong to Russia, as above mentioned, shall be formed by a line parallel to the windings of the coast, and which shall never exceed the distance of ten marine leagues therefrom.
Side 47 - It is, moreover, agreed that hereafter there shall not be formed by the citizens of the United States, or under the authority of the said States, any establishment upon the north-west coast of America, nor in any of the islands adjacent, to the north of 54...
Side 66 - The pursuits of commerce, whaling, and fishery, and of all other industry, on all islands, ports, and gulfs, including the whole of the northwest coast of America, beginning from...
Side 62 - ... was it the intention and meaning of said convention of 1825 that there should remain in the exclusive possession of Russia a continuous fringe or strip of coast on the mainland, not exceeding ten marine leagues in width, separating the British possessions from the bays, ports, inlets, havens, and waters of the ocean...
Side 67 - Urup, viz : to the 45° 50' northern latitude, is exclusively granted to Russian subjects. SEC. 2. It is therefore prohibited to all foreign vessels, not only to land on the coasts and islands belonging to Russia, as stated above, but also to approach them within less than an hundred Italian miles. The transgressor's vessel is subject to confiscation, along with the whole cargo.
Side 43 - Thus the jurisdiction of each State extends to the thread of the stream, that is, to the "midchannel," and, if there be several channels, to the middle of the principal one, or, rather, the one usually followed.
Side 9 - It is a cardinal rule of statutory construction that significance and effect shall, if possible, be accorded to every word. As early as in Bacon's Abridgment, sect. 2, it was said that 'a statute ought, upon the whole, to be so construed that, if it can be prevented, no clause, sentence, or word shall be superfluous, void, or insignificant.