PERIOD SINCE THE CESSION. 79 



other fur-bearine- animal, within the Hinits of said Action of Con- 



^ gresi, 



territory, or in the waters thereof. . . ."^ 



That the waters above referred to weve those 

 of the eastern half of Bering Sea not only appears 

 from the language of the treaty itself, but also 

 from Mr. Sumner's definition of this language 

 publicly given in the Senate of the United States. 

 Ill the speech already cited, in describing the line 

 of demarcation drawn in the treaty through 

 Bering Sea, he refers to it as making the 

 western boundary of our country the dividing 

 line which separates Asia from America ; and 

 he speaks of the waters contained within this 

 boundary as "our part of Bering Sea."^ 



1 The above sections have been respectively incorporated into 

 the Revised Statutes of the United States as sections 1954 and 

 1956, Vol.1, p. 95. 



"^Honse Ex. Doc. No. 177, Fortieth Congress, second session, at 

 p. 125. Following are extracts from the above speech : "Starting 

 from tlie Frozen Ocean, the western boundary descends Behring 

 Straits, midway between the two Islands of Krusenstern and Eat- 

 uianof, to the parallel of 65° 30', just below where the continents 

 of America and Asia approach each other the nearest; and from 

 tliis point it proceeds in a course nearly southwest through Behr- 

 ing Straits, midway between the island of St. Lawrence and Cape 

 Choukotslii, to the meridian of 172° west longitude, and thence, 

 in a soutliwesterly direction, traversing Behring Sea, midway 

 between the island of Attn on the east and Copper Island in the 

 west, to the meridian of 193° west longitude, leaving the pro- 

 longed group of the Aleutian Islands in the possessions now 

 transferred to the United States, and making the western bound- 

 ary of our country the dividing line which separates Asia from 

 America." 



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"In our part of Bering Sea there are five considerable islands, 

 the largest of which is St. Lawrence, being more than uinety-sLs 

 miles long." 



