298 CONCLUSION. 



United Stat es j^(3j^^r^] supervision the killing of seals upon the 

 Pi'ibilof Islands, have prohibited such killing in 

 any of the waters of Bering Sea within the limits 

 of the cession, and up to the present time have 

 insisted upon their right to enforce such prohi- 

 bition, but, moved by apprehensions of a dis- 

 turbance of the peace between themselves and 

 Great Britain by the opposition of the latter, 

 they ceased to some extent to enforce it. 



Acquiescence of Seventh. That Great Britain acquiesced in the 



Great Britain. ^ 



exercise of this right by Russia in Bering Sea 

 and in the continued exercise of the same right 

 by the United States up to the year 1886. 

 Right of control Eighth. That this right aud the necessity and 



unquestioned. 



duty of such prohibition have never been ques- 

 tioned, until the excessive slaughter of these ani- 

 mals, now complained of, was commenced by in- 

 dividual adventurers about the year 1885, 

 Investments con- Ninth. That the investment of these adven- 



Lr listed. 



turers in pelagic sealing is speculative, generally 

 unprofitable, and, when compared with the seal- 

 skin industry of Great Britain, France, and the 

 United States, which is dependent upon this seal 

 herd, very insignificant ; and that the profits, !f 

 any, resulting from pelagic sealing are out of all 

 proportion to the destruction that it produces. 



