Fur Seal Arbitration: Argument of the United States Before the Tribunal of Arbitration Convened at Paris Under the Provisions of the Treaty Between the United States of America and Great Britain, Concluded February 29, 1892

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1893 - 327 psl.

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