DESPATCHES, REPOETS, CORRESPONDENCE, ETC. 805 



Persons appointed by the Secretary of State : 



1825. Christopher Hughes, to treat with Denmark. 



1826. John James Appleton, to treat with Naples. 

 1886. George H. Bates, to treat with Tonga. 



Total number, 3. 



Persons appointed by the President: 

 Total number, 438. 



JOHN T. MORGAN, 

 ELI SAULSBUIJY, 

 JOSEPH E. BROWN, 

 H. B. PAYNE. 



No 242. 1892-3: Extracts from proceedings of Bearing Sea 'Arbitra- 

 tion between the United Kingdom and the United States relative 

 to the taking of Seals by British Fishermen. 



Mr. H. E. M. Gram, the arbitrator designated by Sweden and Nor- 

 way, read the following statement : 



The Appendix Vol. 1 to the United States Case gives the text of 

 the law and regulations relating to the protection of whales on the 

 coast of Finumarken. It was my intention later on to explain to my 

 Colleagues these laws and regulations in supplying some information 

 about the natural conditions of Norway and Sweden which have 

 necessitated the establishment of special rules concerning the terri- 

 torial waters, and to state at the same time my opinion as to whether 

 those rules and their subject-matter may be considered as having any 

 bearing upon the present case. As, however, in the latest sittings 

 reference has repeatedly been made to the Norwegian Legislation 

 concerning this matter. I think it might be of some use at the present 

 juncture to give a very brief relation of the leading feature of those 

 rules. 



The peculiarity of the Norwegian Law quoted by the Counsel for 

 the United States consists in its providing for a close season for the 

 whaling. As to its stipulations about inner and territorial waters, 

 such stipulations are simply applications to a special case of the gen- 

 eral principles laid down in the Norwegian Legislation concerning 

 the gulfs and the waters washing the coasts. A glance on the map 

 will be sufficient to show the great number of gulfs or fiords and their 

 importance for the inhabitants of Norway. Some of these fiords 

 have a considerable development, stretching themselves far into the 

 country and being at their mouth very wide. Nevertheless, they 

 have been from time immemorial considered as inner waters, and 

 this principle has always been maintained, even as against foreign 

 subjects. 



More than twenty years ago a foreign government once complained 

 that a vessel of their nationality had been prevented from fishing in 

 one of the largest fiords of Norway, in the northern part of the 

 country. The fishing carried on in that neighbourhood during the 

 first four months of every year is of extraordinary importance to the 

 country, some 30.000 people gathering there from south and north, 

 in order to earn their living. A government inspection controls the 



