Fur-seal Arbitration: Appendix to the Case of the United States Before the Tribunal of Arbitration of Convene at Paris Under the Provisions of the Treaty Between the United States of America and Great Britain, Concluded February 29, 1892, Volume 1 |
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... questions which have arisen between those Governments concerning the jurisdictional rights of the United States in the waters of Behring Sea . [ Concluded at Washington February 29 , 1892. Ratification advised by the Senate March 29 ...
... questions which have arisen between those Governments concerning the jurisdictional rights of the United States in the waters of Behring Sea . [ Concluded at Washington February 29 , 1892. Ratification advised by the Senate March 29 ...
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... question should not in- terrupt or longer delay the submission and determina- tion of the main questions , do agree that either may submit to the Arbitrators any question of fact in- volved in said claims and ask for a finding thereon ...
... question should not in- terrupt or longer delay the submission and determina- tion of the main questions , do agree that either may submit to the Arbitrators any question of fact in- volved in said claims and ask for a finding thereon ...
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... question both the first discoverers and settlers of all territory on its western and southern boundary . As to its eastern boundary , they were the first to visit a portion of it , and the subsequent discoveries of Cook were fol- lowed ...
... question both the first discoverers and settlers of all territory on its western and southern boundary . As to its eastern boundary , they were the first to visit a portion of it , and the subsequent discoveries of Cook were fol- lowed ...
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... question of international law . It will be necessary to as- certain , first , the right of the Imperial Government of Russia to the Bering Sea anterior to the treaty of March , 1867 , and for information upon this subject I am largely ...
... question of international law . It will be necessary to as- certain , first , the right of the Imperial Government of Russia to the Bering Sea anterior to the treaty of March , 1867 , and for information upon this subject I am largely ...
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... question belongs to the political department of the Government and that it should be there adjusted , but this position is , I think , wholly untenable , at least at this stage of the controversy . The second clause of the sixth article ...
... question belongs to the political department of the Government and that it should be there adjusted , but this position is , I think , wholly untenable , at least at this stage of the controversy . The second clause of the sixth article ...
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Page 45 - The uncivilized tribes will be subject to such laws and regulations as the United States may, from time to time, adopt in regard to aboriginal tribes of that country.
Page 3 - 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 for it, to furnish that party with a copy thereof...
Page 117 - This principle was that discovery gave title to the government by whose subjects, or by whose authority, it was made, against all other European governments, which title might be consummated by possession...
Page 34 - 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 3 - 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 45 - The inhabitants of the ceded territory, according to their choice, reserving their natural allegiance, may return to Russia within three years; but if they should prefer to remain in the ceded territory, they, with the exception of uncivilized native tribes, shall be admitted to the enjoyment of all the rights, advantages and immunities of citizens of the United States, and shall be maintained and protected in the free enjoyment of their liberty, property and religion.
Page 34 - ... a line drawn from the said point due north or south as the case may be, until the said line shall intersect the said parallel of north latitude, and from the point of such intersection due west along and with the said parallel shall be the line of...
Page 231 - ... point the line of demarcation shall follow the summit of the mountains situated parallel to the coast, as far as the point of intersection of the...
Page 3 - 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 45 - In the cession of territory and dominion made by the preceding article, are included the right of property in all public lots and squares, vacant lands, and all public buildings, fortifications, barracks, and other edifices which are not private individual property. It is, however, understood and agreed, that the churches which have been built in the ceded territory by the Russian government, shall remain the property of such members of the Greek Oriental Church resident in the territory, as may...