Fur Seal Arbitration, Volume 8U.S. Government Printing Office, 1895 |
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50th Congress Act respecting Extra-Judicial Agent Alaska Aleutian Islands American Appendix Asiatic side August Barclay Sound barren cows Behring Sea BELYEA Board of Administration boat breeding British Columbia British Commissioners Cape Flattery Captain catch cent city of Victoria Colonies Commander Islands Copper Island cruize declaration conscientiously believing Ditto DOMINION OF CANADA evidence females than males fisheries fur-seal Government hunter hunting Ibid Indians July Kurile Islands latitude miles milk natives north-west coast Notary Public Notary Public duly number of seals pelagic sealing Pinnipeds port Pribyloff Islands Province of British Public duly commissioned Report residing and practising respecting Extra-Judicial Oaths rookeries Russian Russian-American Company San Francisco saw seals says schooner seal-hunter seal-skins seals taken season seen seals shoot shore shot Signed skins solemn declaration conscientiously solemnly spear statement Subscribed and declared tion Treaty Ukase Unalaska United Vancouver Island vessel wounded yards
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Page 377 - ... the claims of any other Power or State to any part of the said country ; the only object of the high contracting parties, in that respect, being to prevent disputes and differences amongst themselves.
Page 299 - Pacific Ocean,' as used in the treaty of 1825 between Great Britain and Russia, and what rights, if any, in the Behring Sea were held and exclusively exercised by Russia after said treaty ?
Page 299 - If the determination of the foregoing questions as to the exclusive jurisdiction of the United States shall leave the subject in such position that the concurrence of Great Britain is necessary to the establishment of regulations for the proper protection and preservation of the fur seal in or habitually resorting to the Bering Sea...
Page 299 - Pacific Ocean," as used in the Treaty of 1825 between Great Britain and Russia; and what rights, if any, in the Behring's Sea, were held and exclusively exercised by Russia after said Treaty?
Page 377 - ... that this agreement is not to be construed to the prejudice of any claim which either of the two high contracting parties may have to any part of the said country...
Page 296 - ... fur-seal in, or habitually resorting to, the Behring Sea, the Arbitrators shall then determine what concurrent Regulations outside the jurisdictional limits of the respective Governments are necessary, and over what waters such Regulations should extend, and to aid them in that determination the report of a Joint Commission to be appointed by the respective Governments shall be laid before them, with such other evidence as either Government may submit. The High Contracting Parties furthermore...
Page 377 - It is agreed that any country that may be claimed by either party on the northwest coast of America, westward of the Stony mountains, shall, together with its harbours, 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...
Page 135 - 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 States in Behring Sea when such seals are found outside the ordinary threemile limit?
Page 84 - In the absence of an intention clearly expressed or to be inferred from its language, or from the object or subject-matter or history of the enactment, the presumption is that Parliament does not design its statutes to operate beyond the territorial limits of the United Kingdom.
Page 457 - ... which either Contracting Party has actually granted, or may hereafter grant, to the subjects or citizens of any other State, shall be extended to the subjects or citizens of the other Contracting Party...