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rules of Great Britain, Canada, or Newfoundland is in- 

 herent in the sovereignty of Great Britain; (2) that in the 

 exercise of that liberty the regulations must be made bona 

 fide and must not be in violation of the treaty; (3) that 

 such regulations must be (a) appropriate or necessary for 

 the protection and preservation of the fisheries, or (b) de- 

 sirable or necessary on grounds of public order or morals 

 without unnecessarily interfering with the fishery itself, 

 and (c) equitable and fair as between local and American 

 fishermen, and not so framed as to give unfairly an advan- 

 tage to the former over the latter class; (4) that in case of 

 a difference of opinion between the two nations as to the 

 reasonableness of any existing fishery regulation made by 

 Great Britain, Canada, or Newfoundland, the decision 

 must be made by an impartial commission of expert special- 

 ists, in accordance with the terms of the special agreement, 

 the commission to consist of one non-national member to 

 be designated by the court and of one member to be desig- 

 nated within one month by each of the parties to the arbi- 

 tration; (5) that the unanimous opinion of this commis- 

 sion or the opinion of the non-national member in case of 

 dispute is recommended for acceptance of the parties, in 

 lieu of a reconvening of the court; (6) that all future 

 municipal laws, ordinances, or rules for the regulation of 

 the fishery in respect to (a) the hours, days, or seasons 

 when fish may be taken on the treaty coasts, (b) the 

 methods, means, and implements used in taking fish or in 

 conducting fishing operations, (c) any other matters of a 

 similar character, shall be published in the respective offi- 

 cial gazettes of Great Britain, Canada, or Newfoundland 

 at least two months before becoming effecive; (7) that if 

 the United States government considers any such laws or 

 regulations inconsistent with the treaty of 1818, they shall 

 not come into effect so far as the inhabitants of the United 

 States are concerned until approved by a permanent mixed 

 fishery commission, composed of one expert on behalf of 

 the United States, one on behalf of Canada, and one on 



