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THE SOVEREIGNTY OF THE SEA 



ratification was brought into force on 31st March 1903 by an 

 Order in Council of the 12th of that month. Its main object, 

 apparently, was to regulate the fisheries of the subjects of the 

 two countries outside territorial waters in a large part of the 

 ocean surrounding the Faroe Isles and Iceland, in a small part 

 of which extensive fisheries are now carried on by foreigners, 

 especially by English and German trawlers ; but its immediate 



