Fur Seal Arbitration, Volume 9U.S. Government Printing Office, 1893 - Bering Sea controversy |
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Alaska Commercial Company Aleutian Aleutian Islands American animals Barclay Sound Bering Sea birth boat born breeding grounds breeding rookeries British Columbia British Commissioners canoes Cape Flattery captured catch caught cent Chas coast Commander Islands cows decrease deposes and says destruction Dixons Entrance driving duly sworn engaged fact feeding female seals fur-seal fur-seal skins George Island Government habits hauling grounds hunting seals ibid Indians July June land large number law of nations lessees male seals master miles milk mother seals native never known number of seals observed occupation old bull opinion Pacific and Bering Pacific Ocean Paul Island pelagic sealing Pribilof Islands pups rifle rookeries Russian sailed San Francisco schooner seal herd seal islands sealers sealing schooner seals killed seals taken season shoot shore shot shotgun Sitka slaughter spear taking seal tion United vessels Victoria
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Page 624 - Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy herdmen ; for we be brethren. Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me : if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right ; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left.
Page 4 - Commentaries remarks, that this law of Nature being coeval with mankind, and dictated by God himself, is of course superior in obligation to any other. It is binding over all the globe, in all countries and at all times; no human laws are of any validity if contrary to this, and such of them as are valid, derive all their force, and all their validity, and all their authority, mediately and immediately, from this original...
Page 57 - This principle was that discovery gave title to the government by whose subjects, or by whose authority, it was made, against all other European governments, which title might be consummated by possession...
Page 621 - God said, let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowls of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
Page 27 - Sea, and what exclusive rights in the seal fisheries therein, did Russia assert and exercise prior and up to the time of the cession of Alaska to the United States?
Page 190 - 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 necessary to the establishment of regulations for the proper protection and preservation of the fur seal in or habitually resorting to the Bering Sea...
Page 622 - But when mankind increased in number, craft, and ambition, it became necessary to entertain conceptions of more permanent dominion, and to appropriate to individuals not the immediate use only, but the very substance of the thing to be used.
Page 182 - ... its colonies. Any attempt to violate the laws made to protect this right, is an injury to itself which it may prevent, and it has a right to use the means necessary for its prevention. These means do not appear to be limited within any certain marked boundaries, . which remain the same at all times and in all situations.
Page 624 - And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar.
Page 147 - States in attaching to their coasts an extent into the sea, beyond the reach of cannon shot.a *30 "^Considering the great extent of the line of the American coasts, we have a right to claim, for fiscal and defensive regulations, a liberal extension of maritime jurisdiction ; and it would not be unreasonable, as I apprehend, to assume, for domestic purposes connected with our safety and welfare...