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The execution of awards of damages shall be effected, on the application of the Official Prosecutor 
by the competent Administration, which will advance the costs and recover them from the condemned 
parties according to the usual process of law in such cases. 
In the United Kingdom the Court before which proceedings are taken for the above-mentioned 
infractions shall be empowered, at the suit of the Official Prosecutor on the request of the injured party, 
to award damages for injury to person or property, and the Official Prosecutor shall, at his own cost, 
recover the sum so awarded, or so much thereof as is possible, from the parties liable. 
The amount of damages recovered, as stipulated above, shall be remitted free of cost to the injured 
party through the proper diplomatic channel. 
Arr. VI. The High Contracting Parties engage to take, or to propose to their respective legislatures, 
the necessary measures for insuring the execution of the present Declaration, and especially for pun- 
ishing, either by fine or imprisonment, or both, persons who may contravene Article IV. 
Arr. VII. The present Declaration shall be ratified, and the ratifications shall be exchanged at 
Brussels as soon as possible. 
Arr. VIII. The present Declaration shall come into force at a date to be agreed upon subsequently 
by the High Contracting Parties. 
It shall remain in force for three years from that date, and in the event of neither of the High 
Contracting Parties having notified twelve months before the expiry of the said period of three years 
their intention of terminating it, it shall continue to remain in force for a year, and so on from year 
to year. 
In witness whereof the undersigned Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at Brussels 
of Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and the undersigned 
Minister for Foreign Affairs of His Majesty the King of the Belgians, have drawn up the present Declara- 
tion in duplicate, and have affixed thereto the seals of their arms. 
Done at Brussels, the 2d May, 1891. 
APPENDIX E. 
Fishery Articles of the Submarine Cable Convention of 1884. 
ARTICLE I. The present Convention shall be applicable, outside of the territorial waters, to all 
legally established submarine cables landed in the territories, colonies, or possessions of one or more of 
the High Contracting Parties. 
Arr. II. The breaking or injury of a submarine cable, done willfully or through culpable negli- 
gence, and resulting in the total or partial interruption or embarrassment of telegraphic communication, 
shall be a punishable offense, but the punishment inflicted shall be no bar to a civil action for damages. 
This provision shall not apply to ruptures or injuries when the parties guilty thereof have become so 
simply with the legitimate object of saving their lives or their vessels, after having taken all necessary 
precautions to avoid such ruptures or injuries. 
Art. V. Vessels engaged in laying or repairing submarine cables must observe the rules concerning 
signals that have been or shall be adopted, by common consent, by the High Contracting Parties, with 
a view to preventing collisions at sea. When a vessel engaged in repairing a cable carries the said 
signals, other vessels that see or are able to see those signals shall withdraw or keep at a distance of 
at least one nautical mile from such vessel, in order not to interfere with its operations. Fishing gear 
and nets shall be kept at the same distance. Nevertheless, a period of twenty-four hours at most 
shall be allowed to fishing vessels that perceive or are able to perceive a telegraph ship carrying the 
said signals, in order that they may be enabled to obey the notice thus given, and no obstacle shall 
be placed in the way of their operations during such period. The operations of telegraph ships shall be 
finished as speedily as possible. 
Arr. VI. Vessels that see or are able to see buoys designed to show the position of cables when the 
latter are being laid, are out of order, or are broken, shall keep at the distance of one-quarter of a nau- 
tical mile at least from such buoys. Fishing nets and gear shall be kept at the same distance. 
