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COUNTER-CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 

 Indpx to British Counter-Case — Continued. 



Protection of fur-seals— Continued. 



Eight of. Claim as stated by Mr. Blaine 



" claimed by United States as a right on high sea 



" Distinguished from property 



Acts of, no evidence of Jurisdiction 



Eight of, said to be established by international law 



Protection of islands — 



British Commissioners on 



Inefficient 



Protective jurisdiction — 



Grounds of United States claim 



Puberty — 



Ageof 



Q- 



"Quota" of skjns — 



Difficulty in securing 



Facts by which United States Government should have been guided 



Fixed by United States more than double that by Russia 



Inetiective control of, by United States 



Injury caused by filling admitted in United States Case 



Not reduced where seals known to be decreasing 



Views of British Commissioners on 



Only included marketable skins 



Unchanged during lease of Alaska Commercial Company 



B- 



Eaida— 



United States contentions 



Summary of British reply 



Attempt to minimize in United States Case 



British Commissioners on 



Complaints of, by Government Agents 



Death of pups caused by 



Early instances of 



Injury caused by 



List of those recorded, 1874-1891 



Mr. Macoun on 



Eecapitulation of argument 



E6clu8 on meaning of Pacific Ocean 



Eegulations — 



Considerations afiecting 



Nature of, at sea and on shore 



Necessarily correlative 



Object of 



Eeference to, in British Case 



Scheme of , 



Scope of, under Article VII of Treaty 



Treated of, in deference to wishes of United States , 



"Would not be binding on foreign Powers 



Eeservation of seal fishery by Eussia — 



No evidence of 



Jies nuHivi — 



Seals are 



Eevenue cruizers — 



Difficulty in obtaining 



E6villon, Messrs. — 



Trade in seal-skins of 



Eiccord-Pigott— 



Contract. Did ijot involve maritime jurisdiction 



Correspondence. Extracts from 



Eights of nations — 



Must be determined by international law 



Eight of protection and property in fur-seals — 



United States contentions .." 



(See "Protection" and "Property.") 



Rights passing to United States by Treaty of 1867 



Eookeries — 



Discovery of, on west side of Pacific 



Efiects of disturbance on 



Gradual decadence of, under United States management 



Improvement of, in 1892 '. 



Eussian managemen t of 



Natural condition of, changed by killing of males on islands 



Eussia — 



Alleged assertion of exclusive rights not proved 



Does not claim jurisdiction beyond territorial limits 



Eussian- American Company - 



Not concerned about Behring Sea 



Privileges on land only 



Eevocation of privileges on east coast of Behring Sea 



Their objectiona to Treaty of 1824 , 



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