The Behring Sea Arbitration: Letters to the Times by Its Special Correspondent: Together with the Award. Reprinted by Permission of the Proprietors |
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acts Agent Alaska Aleutian Islands American analogy animus revertendi answer Article asserted Attorney-General Award Baron DE COURCEL Blaine Britannic Majesty British capture Carter claim concurrent regulations condemnation contention decide and determine defence dispute District of Alaska document domestic animals established exclusive jurisdiction exclusive right exercise fact five points fur-seal fishing GREGERS GRAM grounds habitually resorting herd high seas industry insist international law Ivan Petrof Judge killing land latitude Lord HANNEN Lord Salisbury Majesty's Government matter miles Rush municipal law nations nature necessity Pacific Ocean peace pelagic sealing Phelps Phelps's position possession Pribylof Islands principle property interest proposition question of regulations questions of right reason recognised right of property Russia schooner seal fisheries sealer seems seized seizures Senator Morgan sentence ships shore Sir JOHN THOMPSON Sitka statute submitted territorial waters things tion Treaty of 1825 Tribunal of Arbitration Twopenny Justice Ukase United States argument vessels wild animals
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Page 69 - 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 three-mile limit?
Page 18 - 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...
Page 26 - For 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 fountains.
Page 53 - States at all, did nothing unreasonable or excessive; since the act, justified by the necessity of self-defence, must be limited by that necessity, and kept clearly within it.
Page 76 - And whereas the High Contracting Parties having found themselves unable to agree upon a reference which should include the question of the liability of each for the injuries alleged to have been sustained by the other, or by its citizens, in connection with the claims presented and urged by it...
Page 77 - Pacific Ocean" as used in the treaty of 1825, between Great Britain and Russia...
Page 16 - If in the case submitted to the arbitrators either party shall have specified or alluded to any report or document in its own exclusive possession without annexing a copy, such party shall be bound, if the other party thinks proper to apply fur it, to furnish that party with a copy thereof...
Page 18 - 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 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...
Page 77 - 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?
Page 85 - And whereas the Government of Her Britannic Majesty did ask the said arbitrators to find the said facts as set forth in the said statement, and whereas the agent and counsel for the United States Government thereupon in our presence informed us that the said statement of facts was sustained by the evidence, and that they had agreed with the agent and counsel for Her Britannic Majesty that we, the arbitrators, if we should think fit so to do, might find the said statement of facts to be true. Now,...