THE FUR SEALS OF THE PRIBILOF ISLANDS. 



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 Bering Sea was included in the 

 phrase "Pacific Ocean," as used in the treaty of 1825 between Great Britain and 

 Russia, we, the said arbitrators, do unanimously decide and determine that the body 

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

 used in the said treatj^. 



And as to so much of the said third point as requires us to decide what rights, if 

 any, in Bering Sea were held and exclusively exercised by Russia after the said treaty 

 of 1825, we, the said Baron de Courcel, Mr. Justice Harlan, Lord Hauueu, Sir John 

 Thompson, Marquis 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 fourth 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 

 under 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 Yeuosta, and Mr. Gregers Gram, being a majority 

 of the 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 3-mile limit. 



And whereas the aforesaid determination of the foregoing questions as to the 

 exclusive jurisdiction of the United States, mentioned in Article VI, leaves the subject 

 in such a position that the concurrence of Great Britain is necessary to the establish- 

 ment of "regulations for the proper protection and preservation of the fur seals in or 

 habitually resorting to Bering Sea, the tribunal having decided by a majority as to 

 each article of the following regulations, we, the said Baron de Courcel, Lord Hannen, 

 Marquis Viscouti Venosta, and Mr. Gregers Gram, assenting to the whole of the nine 

 articles of the following regulations, and being a majority of the said arbitrators, do 

 decide and determine in the mode provided by the treaty that the following concurrent 

 regulations outside the jurisdictional limits of the respective Governments are 

 necessary, and that they should extend over the waters hereinafter mentioned; that 

 is to say: 



REGULATIONS 

 ARTICLE 1. 



The Governments of the United States and of Great Britain shall forbid their 

 citizens and subjects, respectively, to kill, capture, or pursue at any time and in any 

 manner whatever the animals commonly called fur seals within a /one of 60 miles 

 around the Pribilof Islands, inclusive of the territorial waters. 



The miles mentioned in the preceding paragraph are geographical miles, of GO to 

 a degree of latitude. 



ARTICLE 2. 



The two Governments shall forbid their citizens and subjects, respectively, to kill, 

 capture, or pursue, in any manner whatever, during the season extending each year 



