TABLE OF CONTENTS. IX 



Third, Regulations Proposed in the Report— Continued. 



(c) Specific scheme of regulations recommended — Continued. Page. 



'• Compensatory adjustments " proposed 127 



Supposed pelagic catch, 10,000 a week 128 



Unfairness of Commissioners shown 128 



Alternative methods of regulations 128 



REPLY OP THE UNITED STATES TO THE BRITISH CLAIMS Kult DAMAGES. 



Seizures admitted , 129 



Prohibition of sealing in Bering Sea 129 



Reasons why seizures were made 130 



Vessels seized, owned by United States citizens 130 



Relations of Boscowitz, Warren and Cooper 131 



Joseph Boscowitz, United States citizen, owner 131 



A. J. Bechtel, United States citizen, owner 131 



A. Frank, United States citizen, owner 132 



No damages can be awarded for prospective profits 133 



Decision in Geneva Arbitration 133 



All damages claimed excessive 134 



Questions submitted under Article VIII 134 



Counter Case reasserts the positions taken in the Case 135 



APPENDIX. 



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 Diplomatic Correspodence : 



Relating to the interpretation of the Treaty of Arbitrati on 139 



Relating to erroneous translations of certain Russian documents referred 



to in the Case of the United States 151 



Amended translations 154 



Relating to Cases of the Pearl, Loriot, and Harriet 175 



Case of the Pearl 175 



Case of the Loriot 180 



Case of the Harriet 184 



Russian Documents 



Relating to the number of seals killed on St. Paul Island, 1860-1866 193 



Relating to the visits of foreign whalers to Bering Sea 199 



Seizures of American and British Vessels by Russia in 1892 201 



