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"This Tribunal of Arbitration is empowered by tlie treaty of Febru- 

 ary 29, 1892, between tlie United States and G-reat Britain, to determine 

 what concurrent regulations are proper to be adopted and enforced by 

 the action of the respective Governments, applicable to their respective 

 citizens or subjects, outside of their respective territorisil limits and 

 outside of Bering Sea, for the protection and preservation of fur-seals 

 in, or habitually resorting to, Bering Sea." 



At the conclusion of the foregoing remarks Mr. Justice Harlan 

 accepted this declaration, oifercd by Senator Morgan, as a substitute 

 for those proposed by him, and moved the ado]jtion of the same. 



