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APPENDIX TO CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 979 
agreed to adjust such difference in manner hereinafter mentioned, and 
without prejudice to the rights of either party: 
The said High Contracting Parties have appointed as their Plenipo- 
tentiaries to conclude a Convention for this purpose, that is to say: 
Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and 
Ireland, Sir Julian Pauncefote, Knight Grand Cross of the most dis- 
tinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, Knight Commander 
of the most honorable Order of the Bath, and Envoy Extraordinary and 
Minister Plenipotentiary of Her Britannic Majesty 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, found in good and due form, have agreed upon aud concluded 
the following Articles: 
ARTICLE I. 
Her Majesty’s Government will prohibit, during the pendency of the arbitration, 
seal killing in that part of Behring’s Sea lying eastward of the line of demarcation 
described in Article l of the Treaty of 1867 between the United States and Russia, and 
will promptly use its best efforts to insure the observance of this prohibition by Brit- 
ish subjects and vessels. 
ARTICLE II. 
The United States Government will prohibit seal killing for the same period in the 
saine part of Behring’s Sea, and on the shores and islands thereof, the property of 
the United States (in excess of 7,500 to be taken on the islands for the subsistence 
and care of the natives), and will promptly use its best efforts to insure the observ- 
ance of this prohibition by United States citizens and vessels. 
ARTICLE III. 
Every vessel or person offending against this prohibition in the said waters of 
Behring Sea, outside of the ordinary territorial limits of the United States, may be 
seized and detained by the naval or other duly commissioned officers of either of the 
High Contracting Parties, but they shall be handed over as soon as practicable to 
the authorities of the nation to which they respectively belong, who shall alone have 
jurisdiction to try the offence and impose the penalties for thesame. The witnesses 
and proofs necessary to establish the offence shall also be sent with them. 
8 ARTICLE IV. 
In order to facilitate such proper inquiries as Her Majesty’s Government may 
desire to make, with a view to the presentation of the case and arguments of that 
Government before the Arbitrators, it is agreed that suitable persons designated 
by Great Britain will be permitted at any time, upon application, to visit or remain 
upon the seal islands, during the sealing season, for that purpose. 
ARTICLE VY, 
If the result of the arbitration be to affirm the right of British sealers to take seals 
in Behring’s Sea within the bounds claimed by the United States, under its purchase 
from Russia, then compensation shall be made by the United States to Great Britain 
(for the use of her subjects) for abstaining from the exercise of that right during the 
pendency of the arbitration upon the basis of such a regulated and limited catch or 
catches as in the opinion of the Arbitrators might have been taken without an undue 
diminution of the seal herds; and, on the other hand, if the result of the arbitration 
shall be to deny the right of British sealers to take seals within the said waters, then 
compensation shall be made by Great Britain to the United States (for itself, its citi- 
zens, and lessees) for this agreement to limit the island catch to 7,500 a season, upon 
the basis of the difference between this number and such larger catch as in the 
opinion of the Arbitrators might have been taken without an undue diminution of 
the seal herds. 
The amount awarded, if any, in either case, shall be such as under all circumstances 
is just and equitable, and shall be promptly paid. 
