70 CESSION OF ALASKA 



to the United States, ])rili,sli subjects and Jjritish 

 vessels were i)r()liil)ited from enterino^ Berino- 

 Sea t(^ luint fur-seals, and that it does not ap})ear 

 that tlu^ Ih'itish Government ever protested 

 against the enforcement of this prohibition. 



CESSION OF ALASKA TO THE UNITED STATES BY 

 THE TREATY OF 1867. 



Uussia codod to On March 30, 18G7, the Governments of the 



Unitod Stales ti ' ' 



portion of jiering United States and Russia celebrated a treaty, 



Sen. No objection -^ ' 



"''^''*'- whereby nil the jiossessions of Russia on the 



American continent and in the waters of Bering- 

 Sea were ceded and transferred to the United 

 States.^ This treaty, which, prior to its final con- 

 summation, had been discussed in the Senate of 

 the United States" and by the press, was an as- 

 sertion by two great nations that Russia had 

 heretofore claimed the owners) lip of Bering Sea, 

 and that she had now ceded a })ortion of it to the 

 United States; and to this assertion no objection 

 is ever known to ha\e been made. 

 Boundaries of Article 1 of tliis treaty establishes the boun- 



territory ceded. '' 



daries of the territory ceded. It takes for the 

 eastern boundary the line of demarcation 



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' Vol. I, p. 43. 



- House Ex. Doc. No. 177, Fortii. th Congress, secoiul session, pp. 

 124 et scq. 



