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fur seal in, or habitually resorting to, the Bering Sea, the Arbitrators 

 shall then determine what concurrent Kegulatious outside the jurisdic- 

 tional limits of tlie respective Governments are necessary and over 

 what waters such Regulations should extend, and to aid them in that 

 determination the report of a Joint Commission to be appointed by the 

 respective Governments shall be laid before them, with such otlier evi- 

 dence as either Government may submit. The High Contracting 

 Parties furtliermore agree to cooperate in securing the adhesion of 

 otlier powers to such Regulations." 



Article XIV declares that "the High Contracting Parties engage to 

 consider the result of the proceedings of the Tribunal of Arbitration, 



concurrence of Great Britain is necessary to the establishment of regulations for the 

 proper protection and preservation of the fur-seal m, or hahitually resorting to, 

 the Bering Sea, tlie arbitrators shall then (letcrniine what concurrent regulations 

 outside the jurisdictional limits of the respective Governments are necessary, and 

 over what waters such regulations should extend, and to aid them in that determi- 

 nation, the report of a Joint Commission to be ap]>ointed by the respective Govern- 

 ments shall be laid before them, with such other evidence as eitlier Governn^.cut 

 may submit. • 



The High Contracting Parties furthermore agree to coiiperate in securing tlie adhe- 

 sion of other Powers to such regulations. 



Ar.r. VIII. Tlie High Contracting Parties liaxing found themselves unable to agree 

 upon a reference which shall include the question of the liability of each for the 

 injuries alleged to have been sustained by the other, or by its citizens, in connection 

 with the claims presented and urged by it ; and being solicitous that this subordinate 

 question should not interrupt or longer delay the submission and determination of 

 the main questions, do agree that either party may submit to the arbitrators any 

 question of fact involved in said claims and ask for a finding thereon, the question of 

 the liability of either Government upon the facts found to be the subject of further 

 negotiation. 



Art. IX. The High Contracting Parties have agreed to appoint two commissioners 

 on the part of each Government to make the joint investigation and report contem- 

 plated in the preceding Article vii, and to include the terms of the said agree- 

 ment in the convention, to the end that the joint and several reports and recom- 

 mendations of said commissioners may be in due foi-m submitted to the arbitrators, 

 should the contingency' therefor arise, the said agreement is accordingly herein 

 included as follows; 



Each Government shall appoint two commissioners to investigate conjointly with 

 the commissioners of the other Government all the facts having relation to seal life 

 in Bering Sea, and the measures necessary for its proper protection and preserva- 

 tion. 



The four commissioners shall, so far as they may be able to agree, make a joint 

 report to each of the two Governments, and they shall also report, either jointly or 



