TREATY AND CONVENTION BETWEEN GREAT BRITAIN AND THE 
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA RELATING TO BEHRING’S SEA, 
ING: 
TREATY BETWEEN GREAT BRITAIN AND THE UNITED STATES OF 
AMERICA. ARBITRATION RESPECTING THE SEAL FISHERIES IN 
BEHRING’S SEA. 
Signed at Washington, February 29, 1892. 
[Ratifications exchanged at London, May 7, 1892.] 
Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and 
Ireland and the United States of America, being desirous to provide 
for an amicable settlement of the questions which have arisen between 
their respective Governments concerning the jurisdictional rights of 
the United States in the waters of Behring’s Sea, and concerning also 
the preservation of the fur-seal in or habitually resorting to the said 
sea, and the rights of the citizens and subjects of either country as 
regards the taking of fur-seal in or habitually resorting to the said 
waters, have resolved to submit to arbitration the questions involved, 
and to the end of concluding a Convention for that purpose have 
appointed as their respective Plenipotentiaries: 
Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and 
Ireland, Sir Julian Pauncefote, G. C. M. G., K. C. B., Her Majesty’s 
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the United 
States; and the President of the United States of America, James G. 
Blaine, Secretary of State of the United States; 
Who, after having communicated to each other their respective Full 
Powers, which were found to be in due and proper form, have agreed 
to and concluded the following Articles: 
2 ARTICLE I. 
The questions which have arisen between the Government of Her Britannic Maj- 
esty and the Government of the United States concerning the jurisdictional rights 
of the United States in the waters of Behring’s Sea, and concerning also the preser- 
vation of the fur-seal in or habitually resorting to the said sea, and the rights of the 
citizens and subjects of either country as regards the taking of fur-seal in or habitu- 
ally resorting to the said waters, shall be submitted to a Tribunal of Arbitration, to 
be composed of seven Arbitrators, who shall be appointed in the following manner, 
that is to say: two shall be named by Her Britannic Majesty; two shall be named 
by the President of the United States; his Excellency the President of the French 
Republic shall be jointly requested by the High Contracting Parties to name one; 
His Majesty the King of Italy shall be so requested to name one; and His Majesty 
the King of Sweden and Norway shall be so requested to name one. The seven Arbi- 
trators to be so named shall be jurists of distinguished reputation in their respective 
countries; and the selecting Powers shall be requested to choose, if possible, jurists 
who are acquainted with the English language, 
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