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The president replied tliat the Tribunal would takenote of the request 

 as far as possible, without however surrendering the right given it by 

 the treaty of requiring all such infornuition, whether oral, written, or 

 printed, as it might deem useful. 



The agent of Her Britannic Majesty announced that the agent of the 

 United States and he would renjaiu in Paris at the disposition of the 

 Tribunal. 



At 4 p. m. the Tribunal adjourned. 



Done at Paris, the 8th of July, 1893, and signed: 



The Prcnuh'ut: AlPIT. DE COURCEL. 

 The Afjent for the United States: JOHN W. FOSTER. 

 The Agent fur Great Britain: CHARLES H. TUPPER. 

 The Secretary: A. ImBERT. 



Translation certified to be accurate: 

 A. Pailly Blanchard, 



^^ ,^ , Co- Secretaries. 



H. CUiMYNGlUAME, 



PEOTOCOL LIV. 



MEETINGS FRO]^I JULY 10 TO AUCfUST 14, 1893. 



The Tribumil of Arbitration asseinbled with closed doors, all the 

 arbitrators being present, on Monday, July lOth, 1893, and deliberated 

 during successive meetings until Monday, August 14th, inclusive, upon 

 the questions submitted to its de(;ision. 



During these deliberations Lord fJannen presented the following- 

 motion: 



That the award of this Tribunal be given in the form following: 



Whereas by a treaty between the United States of Americaand Great 

 Britain signed at >\'asliington ]<\'bruary 29th, 1892, the ratifications of 

 which by the (Jovernniei.ts of the two countries were exchanged at 

 London on ]\[ay the 7th, 1892, it was, amongst otiier things, agreed and 

 concluded, that the (piestions which had arisen between the Govern- 

 ment of the United States of America and the Government of Her 

 Britannic Majesty concerning the jurisdictional rights of the United 

 States in the waters of Bering Sea, and concerning also the preserva- 

 tion of the fur-seal in or habitually resm-ting to the said sea, and the 

 rights of the citizens and subjects of either country as regards the tak- 

 ing of fur-seals in or habitually resoi'ting to the said waters, should be 

 submitted to a Tribunal of Arbitration to be composed of seven arbi- 

 trators, who should be appointed in the following n)anner, that is to 

 say, two should bo named by the President of the United States; two 

 should be named by Her Britannic ^^ajesty; His Excellency the Presi- 

 dent of the French Republic sh((uld 1)0 jointly rcfpiested by the high 

 contracting x^artics to name one; llis JMajosty th". King of Italy should 



