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At l.oO tlic Tril)Tiiial took a recess. 



On reassembling', Mr. llobiiisoii continued liis argument. 



At 4 p. m. the Tribunal adjourned to the next day at 11 o'clock. 



Done at Paris, the 7tli of June, 1893, and signed : 



The rresident: AlPH. DB CoURCEL. 

 The Agent for fhe United States: JOHN W. FOSTER. 

 The Agent fur (ireat Britain : CHARLES H. TirpPER. 

 37(6 Secretary : A. ImBERT. 



Translation certified to be accurate: 



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H. CUNYNGHAME, ) 



PEOTOCOL XXXV. 



MEETING OF THURSDAY, JUNE 8, 1893. 



The Tribunal assembled in the council cliamber at 11 o'clock, all the 

 arbitrators being present. 

 The public sitting commenced at 12 noon. 

 Mr. Christopher Robinson continued and finished his address. 

 The United States agent then read the following statement: 



The Government of tlie United States, in the event that the determination of the 

 High Trilnmal of certain questions described in the seventh article of the treaty as 

 '•tJie foregoing questions as to the exclusive jiuisdictiou of the United States" 

 should, as mentioned in said seventh article, "leave the subject in such a condition 

 tliat the concurrence of Great Britain is necessary to the establishment of regula- 

 tions for the proper protection and preservation of the fur seal in, or habitually resort- 

 ing to, Bering Sea," submits that the following regulations are necessary and that 

 the sanu' should extend over tlie waters hereinafter in that behalf mentioned: 



First. No citizen or subject of the United States or Great Britain shall in any man- 

 ner kill, capture, or pursue anywhere upon the seas, within the limits and boundaries 

 next hereinafter prescribed for the oijeratiou of this regulation, any of the animals 

 commonly called fur seals. 



Second. The foregoing regulation shall apply to and extend over all those waters, 

 outside the jurisdictional limits of tlic above-mentioned nations of tlie North Paciiic 

 Ocean or Bering Sea which are north of the thirty-fifth parallel of north latitude and 

 east of the one hundred and eightieth meridian of longitude west from Greenwich: 

 Provided, however, That it shall not apply to such pursuit and capture of said seals 

 as may be carried on by Indians dwelling on the coasts of tlie territory either of 

 Great Britain or the United States for their own personal use with spears in open 

 canoes or boats not transported by, or used in connection with, other vessels, and 

 ]iropclled wholly by paddles, and manned by not more than two men each, in the way 

 anciently practiced by such Indians. 



Third. Any ship, vessel, boat, or other craft (other than the canoes orboatsmentioned 

 and described in the last foregoing paragraph) belonging to the citizens or subjects 

 of either of the nations aforesaid which may be found actually engaged in the kill- 

 ing, pursuit, or capture of said seals, or prosecuting a voyage for that purpose within 

 the waters above bounded and described, may, with her tackle, ajiparel, furniture, 

 ])rovisious, and any seal skins on board, be captured and made prize of by any iiublic 

 armed vessel of either of the nations aforesaid; and, in case of any such capture, 



