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1893, U.S./U.K., Arb.-A, Bering Sea Sealing (U.K. case)
Behring Sea arbitration; Case presented on the part of the Government of Her Britannic Majesty to the Tribunal of Arbitration constituted under
Article 1 of the treaty concluded at Washington on the 29th February, 1892, between Her Britannic Majesty and the United States of America: n.a., 161p + 3
maps, United States, No. 1 (1893), London, pr. for HMSO by Harrison & Sons, 1893. (A TOC follows the t.p. Lacks index. The underlying controversy
being arbitrated in this case arose from a fishery dispute between the U.S. and the U.K. in the Pribilof Islands off the coast of Alaska. In 1870 the
U.S., claiming territorial rights, leased the exclusive right to kill seals on or near the islands to an Alaskan company under conditions meant to ensure
the preservation of the seal population. Great Britain protested the U.S. exclusion of its citizens from the sealing region, particularly on the
grounds that when Russia, the prior sovereign of the islands, had attempted to assert such claims, the U.S. had joined the U.K. in protest. An arbitration
of the dispute was agreed to by treaty, and the matter was brought before a commission sitting in Paris. The arbitration panel was composed of two
members each from the U.S. and U.K., along with three members appointed by the president of France, the king of Italy, and the king of Norway & Sweden.
See also the ten other documents relevant to this case offered on this site. The award is provided as LLMC title no. 09692.)
Title:   Case presented on the part of the government of Her Britannic Majesty to the Tribunal of Arbitration constituted under Article I of the treaty concluded at Washington on the 29th February, 1892, between Her Britannic Majesty and the United States of America / presented to both Houses of Parliament by command of Her Majesty, March 1893.
OCLC Number:   718427143
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