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render the decision more practicable and to remove the danger 

 of future differences by adjoining to it a recommendation in 

 virtue of the responsibilities imposed by Article IV of the Special 

 Agreement. 



Considering, moreover, that in treaties with France, with the 

 North German Confederation and the German Empire, and 

 likewise in the North Sea Convention, Great Britain has adopted 

 for similar cases the rule that only bays of ten miles' width 

 should be considered as those wherein the fishing is reserved to 

 nationals ; and that in the course of the negotiations between 

 Great Britain and the United States a similar rule has been on 

 various occasions proposed and adopted by Great Britain in 

 instructions to the naval officers stationed on these coasts ; and 

 that, though these circumstances are not sufficient to constitute 

 this a principle of international law, it seems reasonable to pro- 

 pose this rule with certain exceptions, all the more that this rule 

 with such exceptions has already formed the basis of an agree- 

 ment between the two Powers, 



Now, therefore, this Tribunal, in pursuance of the provisions 

 of Article IV, hereby recommends for the consideration and 

 acceptance of the High Contracting Parties the following rules 

 and method of procedure for determining the limits of the bays 

 hereinbefore enumerated : 



i. In every bay not hereinafter specifically provided for the 

 limits of exclusion shall be drawn three miles seaward from 

 a straight line across the bay in the part nearest the entrance at 

 the first point where the width does not exceed ten miles. 



e.. In the following bays, where the configuration of the coast 

 and the local climatic conditions are such that when foreign 

 fishermen, when within the geographic headlands, might reason- 

 ably and bona fide believe themselves on the high seas, the 

 limits of exclusion shall be drawn in each case between the 

 headlands hereinafter specified as being those at and within 

 which such fishermen might be reasonably expected to recognize 

 the bay under average conditions. . . . 



For Fortune Bay, in Newfoundland, the line from Connaigre 

 Head to the Light on the South-Easterly end of Brunet Island, 

 thence to Fortune Head. 



For or near the following bays the limits of exclusion shall be 

 three marine miles seawards from the following lines, namely 



... At Placentia Bay, in Newfoundland, the line from Latine 

 Point, on the Eastern mainland shore, to the most Southerly 

 Point of Red Island, thence by the most Southerly Point of 

 Merasheen Island to the mainland. . . , 



