Fur Seal Arbitration: Proceedings of the Tribunal of Arbitration, Convened at Paris Under the Treaty Between the United States of America and Great Britain, Concluded at Washington February 29, 1892 for the Determination of Questions Between the Two Governments Concerning the Jurisdictional Rights of the United States in the Waters of Bering Sea, Volum 1

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Side 76 - to the time of the cession of Alaska to the United States? 2. How far were these claims of jurisdiction as to the seal fisheries recognized and conceded by Great Britain? 3. Was the body of water now known as the Bering's Sea included in the phra.se Pacific Ocean, as used in the Treaty of
Side 76 - the water boundary, in the Treaty between the United States and Russia of the 30th of March, 1867, pass unimpaired to the United States under that Treaty ? 5. Has the United States any right, and if so, what right of protection or property in the fur-seals frequenting the islands of the United
Side 9 - assert and exercise prior and up to the time of the cession of Alaska to the United States ? ****** 5. Has the United States any right, and, if so, what right, of protection or: property in the fur-seals frequenting the islands of the United States in Behring Sea when such seals are found outside
Side 42 - and the one hundred and thirty-third degree of west longitude (meridian of Greenwich), the said line shall ascend to the north along the channel called Portland Channel, as far as the point of the continent where it strikes the fifty-sixth degree of north latitude; from
Side 135 - no human laws are of any validity if contrary to this, and such of them as are valid derive all their force and all their authority, mediately or immediately, from this original.
Side 58 - Bering Sea. and what exclusive rights in the seal fisheries therein, did Russia assert and exercise prior and up to the time of the cession of Alaska to the United States? "2. How far were these claims of jurisdiction as to the seal fisheries recognized and conceded by Great Britain? "3. "Was the body of water now
Side 9 - fur-seal in, or habitually resorting to, the said waters, have resolved to submit to arbitration the questions involved, and to the end of concluding a convention for that purpose have appointed as their respective Plenipotentiaries: The President of the United States of America, James G. Elaine, Secretary of State of the United States; and Her Majesty the Queen of the
Side 11 - Pacific Ocean," as used in the treaty of 1825 between Great Britain and Russia; and what rights, if any, in the Bering Sea were held and exclusively exercised by Russia after said treaty? 4. Did all the rights of Russia as to jurisdiction, and as to the seal fisheries in Bering Sea
Side 135 - there are in nature certain fountains of justice, whence all civil laws are derived but as streams; and like as waters do take tinctures and tastes from the soils through which they run, so do civil laws vary according to the regions and governments where they are planted, though they proceed from the same fountain.
Side 9 - ARTICLE I. The questions which have arisen between the Government of Her Britannic Majesty and the Government of the United States concerning the jurisdictional rights of the United States in the waters of Bering Sea, and concerning also the preservation of the fur-seal in or habitually resorting to the said sea, and the rights of the citizens and subjects of