122 CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 



as to prevent tlieir capturing' seals or any otlier animals or 

 fish either on such hinds or in such territorial waters. 



1(». The United States have not, nor has any subject of 

 the United States, any property in fur-seals nntil they 

 have been reduced into possession by capture, and the 

 property so acquired endures so long- only as they are 

 retained in control. 



17. Fur seals are animals ferw natura', and the United 

 States has no right of protection or property in fur seals 

 when found outside the ordinary o mile limit, whether such 

 seals frequent the islands of the United States in Behring 

 Sea or not. 



IS. The right of the subjects of all nations to navigate 

 and fish in the non-territorial waters of the sea now known 

 as Behring Sea remains and exists free and unfettered, and 

 cannot be limited or interfered with except with the 

 concurrence of any nations affected. 



11). No regulations affecting British subjects can be 

 established for the protection and preservation of the fur 

 seal in the non-territorial Avaters of Behring vSea without 

 the concurrence of Great Britain. 



