INTRODUCTION. 5 



question of damages was submitted to the Arbi- 

 trators : 



Aeticle V. 



"If the resuh of the Arbitration be to affirm Question of dam- 

 the right of British sealers to take seals in Behring 

 Sea within the bounds claimed by the United 

 States, under its purchase from Russia, then 

 compensation shall be made by the United States 

 to Great Britain (for the use of her subjects) for 

 abstaining from the exercise of that right during 

 the pendency of the Arbitration upon the basis of 

 such a regulated and limited catch or catches as 

 in the opinion of the Arbitrators might have been 

 taken without an undue diminution of the seal 

 herds ; and, on the other hand, if the result of the 

 Arbitration shall be to deny the right of British 

 sealers to take seals within the said waters, then 

 compensation shall be made by Great Britain 

 to the United States (for itself, its citizens and 

 lessees) for this agreement to limit the island 

 catch to seven thousand five hundred a season, 

 upon the basis of the difference between this 

 number and such larger catch as in the opinion 

 of the Arbitrators might have been taken without 

 an undue diminution of the seal herds. 



" The amount awarded, if any, in either case 



