230 THE FUR SEALS OF THE PRIBILOF ISLANDS. 
2, How far were these claims of jurisdiction as to the seal fisheries recognized 
and conceded by Great Britain? 
3. Was the body of water now known as the Bering Sea included in the phrase 
‘Pacific Ocean,” as used in the treaty of 1825 between Great Britain and Russia; 
and what rights, if any, in the Bering Sea were held and exclusively exercised by 
Russia after said treaty ? 
4. Did all the rights of Russia as to jurisdiction, and as to the seal fisheries in 
Bering Sea east of the water boundary, in the treaty between the United States and 
Russia of the 30th March, 1867, pass unimpaired to the United States under that 
treaty? 
5.-Has the United States any right, and if so, what right of protection or property 
in the fur-seals frequenting the islands of the United States in Bering Sea, when such 
seals are found outside the ordinary 3-mile limit? 
ART. VII. If the determination of the foregoing questions as to the exclusive 
jurisdiction of the United States shall leave the subject in such position that the 
concurrence of Great Britain is uecessary to the establishment of regulations for 
the proper protection of the fur-seal in, or habitually resorting to, the Bering Sea, 
the arbitrators shall then determine what concurrent regulations outside the jurisdic- 
tional limits of the respective Governments are necessary, and over what waters such 
regulations should extend, and to aid them in that determination, the report of a 
Joint Commission to be appointed by the respective Governments shall be laid before 
them, with such other evidence as either Government may submit. 
The High Contracting Parties furthermore agree to co-operate in securing the 
adhesion of other Powers to such regulations. 
Art. VIII. The High Contracting Parties having found themselves unable to 
agree upon a reference which shall include the question of the liability of each for the 
injuries alleged to have been sustained by the other, or by its citizens, in connection 
with the claims presented and urged by it; and being solicitous that this subordinate 
question should not interrupt or longer delay the submission and determination of the 
main questions, do agree that either may submit to the arbitrators any questions 
of fact involved in said claims and ask for a finding thereon, the questions of the 
liability of either Government upon the facts found to be the subject of further 
negotiation. 
ART. IX. The High Contracting Parties have agreed to appoint two commis- 
sioners on the part of each Government to make the joint investigation and report 
contemplated in the preceding Article VII, and to include the terms of the said 
agreement in the present convention, to the end that the joint and several reports and 
recommendations of said commissioners may be in due form submitted to the arbi- 
trators, should the contingency therefor arise, the said agreement is accordingly 
herein included as follows: 
Each Government shall appoint two commissioners to investigate conjointly with 
the commissioners of the other Governments all the facts having relation to seal life 
in Bering Sea, and the measures necessary for its proper protection and preservation 
The four commissioners shall, so far as they may be able to agree, make a joint 
report to each of the two Governments, and they shall also report, either jointly or 
severally, to each Government on any points upon which they may be unable to agree. 
