United States Congressional Serial Set, Issue 3166U.S. Government Printing Office, 1895 - United States Reports, Documents, and Journals of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives. |
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51st degree Alaska Aleutian Islands Anna Beck Article Bagot Behring Sea Behring Strait Behring's Britain British Columbia Captain Carolena catch cession city of Victoria claim coast of America Commander commerce continent Convention côte Count Lieven Count Nesselrode crew declaration despatch discovery dollars dominion Emperor exclusive fisheries fishing foreign vessels fur seals harbours hereto annexed Hudson's Bay Company hunting Ibid inclosed instructions J. D. WARREN jurisdiction Kamtchatka Kodiak land limits longitude Majesty's mare clausum maritime nations natives navigation negotiation north latitude North Pacific north-west coast Notary Public officers Okhotsk Ounalaska outfit owner Pacific Ocean parties Petersburgh Plenipotentiaries Poletica port of Victoria Powers Prince William Sound reason respecting Richard Rush Russian Government Russian-American Company Sayward schooner Sea of Okhotsk seal-skins seized seizure Settlement ship shores Signed Sitka skins territorial tion trade Treaty Ukase Victoria aforesaid voyage W. P. Sayward whaling
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Page 9 - shall be exchanged either at Washington or at London within six months from the date hereof, or earlier if possible. In faith whereof, we, the respective Plenipotentiaries, have signed this Treaty, and have hereunto affixed our seals. Done in duplicate, at Washington, the 29th day of February, 1892. [L. s.] JULIAN
Page 458 - United States, have caused the said Convention to be made public, to the end that the same, and every clause and Article thereof, may b« observed and fulfilled with good faith by the United States and the citizens thereof. In witness whereof, I
Page 458 - DE POLETICA. And whereas the said Convention has been duly ratified on both parts, and the respective ratifications of the same were exchanged 79 at Washington, on the eleventh day of the present month, by John Quincy Adams, Secretary of State of the United States.
Page 43 - marine leagues from the ocean, the limit between the British possessions and the line of coast which is to belong to Russia, as above mentioned, shall be formed by a line parallel to the windings of the coast, and which shall never exceed the distance of 10 marine leagues therefiom
Page 474 - October, 1818, it was agreed that any country that might be claimed by either party on the north-west coast of America, westward of the Stony Mountain, should, together with its harbours, bays, and creeks, and the navigation of all rivers within the same, be free, and open for the term often years from that date, to the vessels,
Page 43 - degree of west longitude (of the same meridian) ; and. finally, from the said point of intersection, the said meridian-line of the 141st degree, in its prolongation as far as the Frozen Ocean, shall form the limit between the Russian and British possessions on the continent of America to the north-west.
Page 28 - of the two High Contracting Parties may have to any part of the said country, nor shall it be taken to affect; 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.