78 COUNTER-CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 



(D.) — Canada. 



c^e'p*'^225^*'***'^ Turning from the fur-seal to the other varieties of seals, 

 it is alleged in the United States Case that, as regards the 

 hair- seal in the North Atlantic — 



they have thrown about them upon the high seas the guardianship of 



British statutes Canadian statutes prohibit all i)ersons, 



without prescribing any marine limit, from disturbing or injuring iill 

 sedentary .seal fisheries during the time of hshiug for seals, or from 

 hindering or frightening the shoals of seals as they enter the fishery. 



90 CANADIAN STATUTE REFERRED TO IN UNITED 



STATES CASE, ASSERTS NO JURISDICTION OVER 

 FOREIGNERS OUTSIDE TERRITROIAL WATERS. 



United States The ouly Canadian Statute referred to is the Fisheries 



vou,p.^4i° '^' ^ct of 1880, which undoubtedly affects Canadian subjects 



upon the high seas, and all persons within the territorial 



waters of Canada, but asserts no jurisdiction over foreign 



subjects outside those waters. 



(E.) — Newfoundland. 



THE NEWFOUNDLAND LAWS QUOTED ALSO MAJfE NO 



SUCH ASSERTION. 



CaYe"^*225^**'*'^ "^^^ ^^"^^ of ^N^ewfoundlaud quoted in the United States 

 Case are municipal Eegulations only, and make no asser- 

 tion of maritime jurisdiction beyond the 3-mile limit. 



(F.) — Jan Mayen Seal Fishery. 



THESE REGULATIONS ARE BASED ON CONVENTION. 



^o comment is necessary upon the international Eegula- 

 tions in force in the ocean fishery known as the Jan Mayen 

 Seal Fishery, because these are admittedly based npon a 

 Convention between the various nations interested in the 

 British Com- fishery. A full account of the nature and origin of these 

 pOTtTp^T98-203 Regulations will be found in the British Commissioners' 

 Eeport, pp. 198-203. 



(G.) — Russia : White and Caspian Seas. 



RUSSIA DOES NOT CLAIM JURISDICTION BEYOND TERRI- 

 TORIAL LIMITS. 



United States The Russiau laws quotcd in the United States Case, 

 Case, p. 228. ^ 228, are merely municipal Regulations, which do not 

 Appendhc,vof.Ti; aficct foreigners beyond the usually recognized limit of ter- 

 Part 11, p. 22. ' ritorial waters. Article XXI of the Russian Code of Prize 

 Law of 1809 limits the jurisdictional waters of Russia to 3 

 miles from the shore. So far as the Caspian Sea is con- 

 cerned, it is not regarded by nations as a high sea. 



