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question should not interrupt or longer delay the submission and determination 

 of the main questions", the High Contracting Parties agreed that "either of 

 them might submit to the arbitrators any question of fact involved in said claims 

 and ask for a finding thereon, the question of the liability of either Government 

 upon the facts found, to be the subject of further negociation ; " 



And whereas, the President of the United States of America named the 

 Honourable John M. Harlan, justice of the Supreme Court of the United 

 States, and the Honourable John T. Morgan, Senator of the United States, to 

 be two of the said arbitrators, and Her Britannic Majesty nam. ' the Right 

 Honourable Lord Hannen and the Honourable Sir John Thompson, Minister 

 of Justice and Attorney General for Canada, to be two of the said arbitrators, 

 and His Excellency the President of the French Republic named the Baron de 

 Courcel, Senator, Ambassador of France, to be one of the said arbitrators, and 

 His Majesty the King of Italy named the Marquis Emilio Visconti Venosta, 

 former Minister of Foreign Affairs and Senator of the Kingdom of Italy, 

 to be one of the said arbitrators, and His Majesty the King of Sweden and 

 Norway named Mr. Gregers Gram, Minister of State, to be one of the said 

 arbitrators; 



And whereas we, the said arbitrators, so named and appointed, having taker 

 upon ourselves the burden of the said arbitration, and having duly met ai 

 Paris, proceeded impartially and carefully to examine and decide all the ques- 

 tions submitted to us, the said arbitrators, under the said treaty, or laid before 

 us as provided in the said treaty on the part of the Governments of Her Bri- 

 tannic Majesty and the United States, respectively; 



Now we, the said arbitrators, having impartially and carefully examined the 

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

 said questions in manner following; that is to say, we decide and determine as 

 to' the five 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 five points, we, the said Baron de Courcel, Mr. 

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

 and Mr. Gregers Gram, being a majority of the said arbitrators, do decide and 

 determine as follows: 



By the ukase of 1821, Russia claimed jurisdiction in the sea now known as 

 the Bering's Sea, to the extent of 100 Italian miles from the coasts and islands 

 belonging to her, but in the course of the negociations which led to the conclu- 

 sion of the treaties of 1824 with the United States and of 1825 with Great 

 Britain, Russia admitted that her jurisdiction in the said sea should be restricted 

 to the reach of cannon shot from shore, and it appears that, from that time up 



