78 AWARD AND DECLARATIONS. 



Visconti Yenosta, and Mr. Gregers Gram, being a majority of the said 

 Arbitrators, do decide and determine tliat Great Britain did not recog- 

 nize or concede any claim, upon the i^art of Jinssia, to ex(!lusive juris- 

 diction as to the seal fisheries in Bering Sea, outside of ordinary terri- 

 torial waters. 



As to the third of the said five points, as to so much thereof as 

 requires us to decide whether the body of water now known as the 

 Bering Sea was included in the jVhrase " racitic Ocean " as used in the 

 Treaty of 1825, between Great Britain and Russia, We,tlie said Arbitra- 

 tors, do unanimously decide and determine that the body of water now 

 known as the Bering Sea was included in the phrase "Pacific Ocean " 

 as used in the said Treaty. 



And as to so much of the said third i)(»int as requires us to decide 

 what rights, if any, in the Bering Sea were held and exclusively exer- 

 cised by Russia after the said Treaty of 1825, We, the said Baron de 

 Courcel, Mr. Justice Harlan, Lord Hannen, Sir John Thompson, Mar- 

 quis Visconti Venosta, and Mr. Gregers Gram, being a majority of the 

 said Arbitrators, do decide and determine that no exclusive rights of 

 jurisdiction in Bering Sea and no exclusive rights as to the seal fisheries 

 therein were held or exercised by Russia outside of ordinary territorial 

 waters after the Treaty of 1825. 



As to the fourtli of the said five points. We, the said Arbitrators, do 

 unanimously decide and determine that all the rights of Russia as to 

 jurisdiction and as to the seal fisheries in Bering Sea, east of the water 

 boundary, in the Treaty between the United States and Russia of the 

 30th March, 1867, did pass unimpaired to the United States urnler the 

 said Treaty. 



As to the fifth of the said five points, We, the said Baron de Courcel, 

 Lord Hannen, Sir John Thompson, Marquis Visconti Venosta, and Mr. 

 Gregers Gram, being a majority of tlie said Arbitrators, do decide and 

 determine that the United States has not any right of protection or 

 property in the fur seals frequenting the islands of the United States 

 in Bering Sea, when such seals are found outside the ordinary three- 

 mile limit. 



And whereas the aforesaid determination of the foregoing questions 

 as to the exclusivejurisdiction of the United States mentioned in Arti- 

 cle VI leaves the subject in such a 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 Bering Sea, the Tribunal having decided by a majority 

 as to each Article of the following Reguhitions, We, the said Baron de 

 Courcel, Lord Hannen, Marquis Visconti Venosta, and Mr. Gregers 

 Gram, assenting to the whole of the nine Articles of the following 

 Regulations, and being a majority of tlie said Arbitrators, do decide 

 and determine, in the mode r»rovided by the Treaty, that the following 



