United States and Great Britain: Minutes of ConferencesSource: The American Journal of International Law, Vol. 5, No. 2, Supplement: OfficialDocuments (Apr., 1911), pp. 93-95Published by: American Society of International LawStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2212524 .

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OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS 93

In faith whereof, we, the respective plenipotentiaries, have signed this treaty and have hereunto affixed our seals.

Done in duplicate at Washington, the 11th day of January, 1897. RICHARD OLNEY. [L. S.]

JULIAN PAUNCEFOTE. [L. S.]

[UNITED STATES AND GREAT BRITAIN.]

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held at Washington the 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th of January, 1911, as to the application of the a-ward delivered on the 7th September, 1910, in the North Atlantic Coast Fisheries Arbitration to existing regulations of Canada and Newfoundland.

The undersigned having considered in detail and with expert assist- ance the steps to be taken in consequence of the award in connection with the objections of the United States Government to existing regula- tions of the fisheries in Canadian and Newfoundland treaty waters as recorded in Protocol XXX of the proceedings before the Tribunal of Arbitration, and having conferred as to the best means of dealing with these objections, have arrived at the following conclusion:

It is unnecessary to refer any existing regulations to the Commission of Experts mentioned in the award in application of Article III of the special agreement of January 27, 1909, or to reconvene the Tribunal of Arbitration; but any difference in regard to the regulations specified in Protocol XXX, which shall not have been disposed of by diplomatic methods, sliall be referred to the Permanent Mixed Fishery Commissions to be constituted as recommended by the Hague Award, under Article IV of tbe special agreement in the same manner as a difference in regard to future regulations would be so referred under the recommendations in the award, unless by mutual consent some other rules and method of pro- cedure are adopted.

January 12, 1911. PHILANDER C KNOX JAMES BRYCE E. A. MORRIS CHANDLER P. ANDERSON A B AYLESWORTH L P BRODEUR

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94 THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW

[UNITED STATES AND GREAT BRITAIN.]

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held at WVashington the lSth and 14th of January, 1911, as to the objec- tions of the United States to existing laws and fishery regulations of Canada as recorded in Protocol XXX of the proceedings upon the North .Atlantic Coast Fisheries Arbitration.

The undersigned, having considered the best means of dealing with the objections above referred to, subject to the minute of previous con- ferences signed January twelfth, have arrived at the following conclusion:

Having regard to the present method of administering the Canadian laws and fishery regulations and to certain amendments which Canada is willing to make therein and to the present state of the fisheries and conditions under which they are carried on and places of fishing, the United States does not press at present any of the objections referred to in Protocol XXX which relate to Canadian laws and fishery regulations, it being understood that the right of the United States to renew such objections is not therebv in any way prejudiced should conditions change.

The amendments in regulations above referred to are: Sub-section one of section five of the Special Fishery Regulations,

Province of Quebec, approved on the twelfth day of September, one thousand nine hundred and seven, is repealed and the following sub- stituted therefor:

1. Fishing by means of cod trap-nets without a license from the Minister of Marine and Fisheries is prohibited in the waters of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, except at the distance of one thousand yards from shore or one thousand yards from any similar net set from the shore.

Sub-section four of section five is repealed and the following substituted therefor:

4. If the leader of a cod trap-net extends from the shore, any fishery officer may determine in writing or orally the length of the leader that shall be used.

Sub-section (a) of section eight of the said Special Fishery Regulations is hereby repealed and the following substituted therefor:

1. (a) Fishing by means of herring trap-nets without a license from the Minister of Marine and Fisheries is prohibited in the waters of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, except at the distance of one thousand vards from shore or one thousand yards from any similar net set from the shore.

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Sub-section (d) of section eight is hereby repealed and the following substituted therefor:

(d) If the leader of a herring trap-net extends from the shore, any fishery officer may determine in writing or orally the length of the leader that shall be used.

Sub-section nine of section five (added): Upon any inhabitant of the United States fishing with trap-nets

in Canadian waters in the exercise of his liberties under the treaty of 1818 applying for a berth site under the licensing provisions, such a license shall be issued in the usual course for any unoccupied berth site selected by the applicant upon payment of the regular fee in consideration of the exclusive use of such site, subject to the usual rules and regulations.

Clause (f) of sub-section one of section eight (added) Upon any inhabitant of the United States fishing with trap-nets

in Canadian waters in the exercise of his liberties under the treaty of 1818 applying for a berth site under the licensing provisions, such a license shall be issued in the usual course for any unoccupied berth site selected by the applicant upon payment of the regular fee in consideration of the exclusive use of such site, subject to the usual rules and regulations.

January 14, 1911. PHILANDER C KNOX JAMES BRYCE L P BRODEUR A B AYLESWORTH CHANDLER P. ANDERSON

[Translation.]

ADDITIONAL PROTOCOL TO TIE CONVENTION RELATIVE TO TILE ESTABLISH- MENT OF AN INTERNATIONAL COURT OF PRIZE.

Signed at The Hague, September 19, 1910. Germany, the United States of America, the Argentine Republic,

Austria-Hungary, Chile, Denmark, Spain, France, Great Britain, Japan, Norway, the Netherlands, Sweden, Powers signatory to the Hague Con- vention dated October 18, 1907, for the establishment of an international court of prize,' considering that for some of these Powers difficulties of a

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