332 SEAL LIFE OX THE PRIBILOF ISLANDS. 



ing taken upon ourselves the burden of the said arbitration, and having 

 duly met at Paris, proceeded impartially and carefully to examine and 

 decide all the questions submitted to us, the said arbitrators, under the 

 said treaty, or laid before us as provided in the said trea y on the part 

 of the Governments of Her Britannic Majesty and the Tinted States, 

 respectively; 



Now we, the said arbitrators, having impartially and carefully exam- 

 ined the said questions, do in like manner by this our award decide and 

 determine the said questions in the manner following; that is to say, 

 we decide and determine as to the live points mentioned in Article VI 

 as to which our award is to embrace a distinct decision upon each of 

 them : 



As to the first of the said ft ve points, we, the said Baron de Coureel, Mr- 

 Justice Harlan, Lord Hannen, Sir John Thompson, Marquis Visconti 

 Venosta, and Mr. Gregers Gram, being a majority of tlie said arbi- 

 trators, do decide and determine as follows: 



By the ukase of 1821 Russia claimed jurisdiction in the sea now 

 known as Bering Sea to the extent of 100 Italian miles from the coast 

 and islands belonging to her; but, in the course of the negotiations which 

 led to the conclusion of tflie treaties of 1824 with the Tinted States and 

 and of 1825 with Great Britain, Russia admitted that her jurisdiction 

 in the said sea should be restricted to the reacli of cannon shot from 

 shore, and it appears that from that time up to the time of the cession 

 of Alaska to the United States Russia never asserted in fact or exer- 

 cised any exclusive jurisdiction in Bering Sea or any exclusive rights- 

 in the seal fisheries therein beyond the ordinary limit of territorial 

 waters. 



As to the second of the said five points, we, the said Baron de Coureel, 

 Mr. Justice Harlan, Lord Ilannen, Sir John Thompson, Marquis Visconti 

 Veuosta, and Mr. Gregers Gram, being a majority of the said arbi- 

 trators, do decide and determine that Great Britain did not recognize 

 or concede any claim upon the part of Russia to exclusive jurisdiction 

 as to the seal fisheries in Bering Sea outside of ordinary territorial 

 waters. 



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 unani- 

 mously 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 treaty. 



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 Coureel, 

 Mr. Justice Harlan, Lord Hannen, Sir John Thorn pson, Marquis Visconti 

 Venosta, and Mr. Gregers Gram, being a majority of the said arbitra- 

 tors, 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, 1807, did pass unimpaired to the United States under the 

 said treatv. 



