68 ^ PROTOCOLS. 



And wlieriMis the aforesaid detcriniuation of tlie forcffoiiiif (|ne.stioiis as to the 

 exclusive^ jiii'isdiction of tlie United States mentioned in Article VI leaves the sub- 

 ject in such a posilion lliat tiie concnrrence ol'(!reiit ;'ritain is necessary to the 

 estahiislimcnt of rei;ulations I'or tlie proper protection and preservation of the fnr- 

 seal in or habitually resorting to the Hering Sea, the 'I'libnnal having decidetl by a 

 majority as to each arti'-le of tlic I'ollowing regulations, Ave, the said Baron de 

 Conrcel, Lord ii.iiinen. Mai(|ui.s V'iscouti Venosta, and Mr. Gregers Gram, assenting 

 to the Avhole of tlie nine articles of the following regulations, and being a majority 

 of the said arbitrators, do decide and Tleternnne in the mode provided by the treaty, 

 that the following concurrent regulations outside the jurisdictional limits of the 

 respective Governments are necessary, au<l that they should extend over the waters 

 liereinafter menlioned, that is to say: 



The arbitiators tlu'ii i)roc('eded to the coiisideiatioii of a project of 

 declarations, in connection with the res^'nlations, wliicli Baron de Conrcel 

 in liis name, as in that of Marqnis Visconti Venosta and Mr. Gregers 

 Gram, i)roposed to the Tribnnal to refer to the Governments of the 

 United States and Great Britain for their consideration. This project is 

 worded as folloAvs: 



Deduralioiis made hi/ ihe Trihuval of Arhitratinn and referred to tlie Governments of the 

 United Stales and Great Britain for their consideration. 



I. 



The arbitrators declare that the concurrent regulations, as determined upon by 

 the Tribunal of Arbitration, by virtue of Artich; VII of the Treaty of tin? 29th of 

 February, 1S92, being ap])licable to the high sea only, should, in their ojnnion, bo 

 supplemented by other regulations applicable within the limits of the sovereignty 

 of each of the two powers interested and to be settled by their common agreement. 



II. 



In view of the critical condition to which it appears certain that the race of fur- 

 senls is now reduced in consequence of circumstances not fully known, the arbi- 

 trators think tit to recommend both Governments to come to an understanding in 

 order to prohibit any killing of fur-seals, either on land or at sea, for a period of 

 two or three years, or at least one year, subject to such exceptions as the two Gov- 

 ernments might lihink proper to adnut of. 



Such a measure might be recurred to at occasional intervals if found beneficial. 



III. 



The arbitrators declare moreover that, in their opinion, the carrying out of the 

 regulations determined upon by the I'ribunal of Ai-bitration, should be assured by a 

 system of stipulations and measures to be enacted by the two powers; and that the 

 Tribunal must, in consequence, leave it to the two powers to decide upon the means 

 for giving elfect to the regulations determined upon by it. 



We do certify this English version to be true and accurate, and have signed the 

 same at Paris this — — day of August, 1893. 



The first and third of the proposed declarations were nnaniinously 

 ado])ted without modification. 



As concerns the second, Lord Hannen, althongh approving the spirit 

 in which it is cone 'ved, and although regarding as very desirable that 

 the destruction of fur-seals might be entirely suspended during a certain 



