4 INTKODUCTION. 



Akticle VIII. 

 Question of fact <<The Hi""!! Contracting- Parties having- found 



may be submitted. , , , , /. 



themselves unable to agree upon a relerence 

 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 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." 

 Modus Vivendi o{ Qu April 18, 1892, the Governments of the 



1892. i ' ' 



United States and Great Britain celebrated an- 

 other Treaty, known as the Modus Vivendi,^ 

 whereby it was agreed that during the pendency 

 of the Arbitration the British Government would 

 prohibit its subjects from seal killing in the east- 

 ern part of Bering Sea, and that the United States 

 would limit seal killing on the Pribilof Islands 

 to seven thousand five hundred seals; and in 

 Article V of the Modus Vivendi the follo^^•ing 



I Vol. I, p. 6. 



