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mieht consent to a reduction of the award, on 

 the ground that the commission had pro- 

 ceeded ultra vires in the consideration of 

 extraneous matter, and on the inference that 

 unanimity was required of the commissioners 

 in rendering their decision. To this report an 

 amendment was carried, providing that the 

 remission of duties on Canadian fish and fish 

 oil should be repealed as soon as consistent 

 with articles XVIII. and XXI, of the treaty. 

 A concurrent resolution was then passed, 

 authorizing the payment of the award, if the 

 President should consider that the good faith 

 of the Nation demanded it. A curious pro- 

 viso. In the correspondence that followed 

 between Mr. Evarts and Lord Salisbury, the 

 former resumed the ground taken in the 

 report of the committee, and displayed, in 

 addition, the returns of the American mack- 

 erel fishery for the four years already passed 

 under the treaty, to show that the privilege 

 was worth, at the highest computation, one 

 hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars per 

 annum, or one million, five hundred thousand 

 dollars for twelve years. At a net valuation, 

 twenty-five thousand dollars per annum, or 

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