Fur-seal Arbitration: Oral Argument of James C. Carter ... on Behalf of the United States Before the Tribunal Or Arbitration Convened at Paris Under the Provisions of the Treaty Between the United States of America and Great Britain, Concluded February 29, 1892 |
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... fur - seals . They were carrying on a very large , or a conside- rable , industry in connection with those animals upon those islands . Prior to the year 1787 one of their navigators , Capt . Pribilof , had observed very numerous bodies of ...
... fur - seals . They were carrying on a very large , or a conside- rable , industry in connection with those animals upon those islands . Prior to the year 1787 one of their navigators , Capt . Pribilof , had observed very numerous bodies of ...
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... for the purpose of further insuring the preservation of the herd , the United States Government resorted to national legislation . Acts were passed , the first of them as early as the year 1870 , designed to protect the seal and other fur ...
... for the purpose of further insuring the preservation of the herd , the United States Government resorted to national legislation . Acts were passed , the first of them as early as the year 1870 , designed to protect the seal and other fur ...
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... seal captured by them , which of course resulted in the enjoyment by the United States of a still larger revenue ... fur - seal is one of the boun- ties of Providence , bestowed upon manking in general , not for the benefit of this ...
... seal captured by them , which of course resulted in the enjoyment by the United States of a still larger revenue ... fur - seal is one of the boun- ties of Providence , bestowed upon manking in general , not for the benefit of this ...
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... for sale in the market , and thou- sands of people were engaged in that industry , many more , indeed , than were engaged in the industry of gathering the seals upon the Pribilof Islands . That particular benefit was secured to Great ...
... for sale in the market , and thou- sands of people were engaged in that industry , many more , indeed , than were engaged in the industry of gathering the seals upon the Pribilof Islands . That particular benefit was secured to Great ...
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... fur - seal fisheries and the special peculiarities of that industry have unavoidably delayed the Treasury officials in framing appropriate regulations and issuing orders to United States vessels to police the Alaskan waters for the ...
... fur - seal fisheries and the special peculiarities of that industry have unavoidably delayed the Treasury officials in framing appropriate regulations and issuing orders to United States vessels to police the Alaskan waters for the ...
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Page 184 - 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 184 - 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 - It is agreed, that, in any part of the Great Ocean, commonly called the Pacific Ocean or South Sea, the respective citizens or subjects of the high contracting powers shall be neither disturbed nor restrained either in navigation, or in fishing, or in the power of resorting to the coasts upon points which may not already have been occupied, for the purpose of trading with the natives, saving always the restrictions and conditions determined by the following articles.
Page 225 - God, who hath given the world to men in common, hath also given them reason to make use of it to the best advantage of life, and convenience. The earth, and all that is therein, is given to men for the support and comfort of their being.
Page 184 - Britain ? 3. Was the body of water now known as the Behring Sea included in the phrase " 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 ? 4.
Page 105 - Commentaries remarks, that this law of Nature being coeval with mankind, and dictated by God himself, is of course superior in obligation to any other. It is binding over all the globe, in all countries and at all times ; 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 validity, and all their authority, mediately and immediately, from this original...
Page 106 - The true foundation on which the administration of international law must rest is that the rules which are to govern are those which arise from mutual interest and utility, from a sense of the inconveniences which would result from a contrary doctrine, and from a sort of moral necessity to do justice in order that justice may be done to us in return.
Page 351 - 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 163 - ARTICLE II. With a view of preventing the rights of navigation and of fishing exercised upon the Great Ocean by the citizens and subjects of the high contracting Powers from becoming the pretext for an illicit trade, it is agreed that the citizens of the United States shall not resort to any point where there is a Russian establishment, without the permission of the governor or commander; and that, reciprocally, the subjects of Russia shall not resort, without permission, to any establishment of...
Page 64 - But, with this single exception, no nation has in time of peace any authority to detain the ships of another upon the high seas on any pretext whatever beyond the limits of her territorial jurisdiction.