The Counter Case of the United States Before the Tribunal of Arbitration to Convene at Paris Under the Treaty Between the United States of America and Great Britain, Concluded February 29, 1892: Including AppendixU.S. Government Printing Office, 1893 - Bering Sea controversy |
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Page 142 - The decision of the Tribunal shall, if possible, be made within three months from the close of the argument on both sides. It shall be made in writing and dated, and shall be signed by the Arbitrators who may assent to it.
Page 35 - The same line of argument would take under its protection piracy and the slave trade when prosecuted in the open sea, or would justify one nation in destroying the commerce of another by placing dangerous obstructions and derelicts in the open sea near its coasts. There are many things...
Page 34 - Here is a valuable fishery, and a large and, if properly managed, permanent industry, the property of the nations on whose shores it is carried on. It is proposed by the colony of a foreign nation, in defiance of the joint remonstrance of all the countries interested, to destroy this business by the indiscriminate slaughter and extermination of the animals in question, in the open...
Page 147 - 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 cooperate in securing the adhesion of other Powers to such Regulations.
Page 133 - And whereas prospective earnings cannot properly be made the subject of compensation, inasmuch as they depend in their nature upon future and uncertain contingencies, the Tribunal is unanimously of opinion that there is no ground for awarding to the United States any sum by way of indemnity under this head.
Page 9 - Without raising any question as to the exceptional measures which the peculiar character of the property in question might justify this Government in taking, and without reference to any exceptional marine jurisdiction that might properly be claimed for that end, it is deemed advisable — and I am instructed by the President so to inform you — to attain the desired ends by international co-operation.
Page 145 - VI leaves the subject in such a position that the concurrence of Great Britain is necessary to the establishment of Regulations...
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