378 NEW ENGLAND FISHERIES 



Article II. 



Either party may call the attention of the Tribunal to 

 any legislative or executive act of the other Party, specified 

 within three months of the exchange of notes enforcing 

 this agreement, and which is claimed to be inconsistent with 

 the true interpretation of the Treaty of 1818 ; and may call 

 upon the Tribunal to express in its award its opinion upon 

 such acts, and to point out in what respects, if any, they 

 are inconsistent with the principles laid down in the award 

 in reply to the preceding questions; and each Party agrees 

 to conform to such opinion. 



Article III. 



If any question arises in the arbitration regarding the 

 reasonableness of any regulation or otherwise which re- 

 quires an examination of the practical effect of any pro- 

 visions in relation to the conditions surrounding the exer- 

 cise of the liberty of fishery enjoyed by the inhabitants of 

 the United States, or which requires expert information 

 about the fisheries themselves, the Tribunal may, in that 

 case, refer such question to a Commission of three expert 

 specialists in such matters ; one to be designated by each of 

 the Parties hereto, and the third, who shall not be a na- 

 tional of either Party, to be designated by the Tribunal. 

 This Commission shall examine into and report their con- 

 clusions on any question or questions so referred to it by 

 the Tribunal and such report shall be considered by the 

 Tribunal and shall, if incorporated by them in the award, 

 be accepted as a part thereof. 



Pending the report of the Commission upon the question 

 or questions so referred and without awaiting such report, 

 the Tribunal may make a separate award upon all or any 

 other questions before it, and such separate award, if made, 

 shall become immediately effective, provided that the re- 



