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In witness whereof the respective plenipotentiaries have signed the 

 same, and have affixed thereto the seal of their arms. 



Done at the Hague, the 15th day of March, in the year of grace 

 1884, in six copies, of which one shall be delivered to each of the six 



Governments. 



W. STUART. 



VON ALVENSLEBEN. 



BON A. D'ANETHAN. 



VAN DER DOES DE WILLEBOIS. 



Louis LEGRAND. 



VAN DER DOES DE WILLEBOIS. 



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Protocol of meeting held March 15, 1884, at the office of the Nether- 

 lands Minister for Foreign Affairs. 



[Translation.] 



The undersigned, envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipoten- 

 tiary of His Majesty the German Emperor, King of Prussia, His 

 Majesty the King of the Belgians, the French Republic, and Her 

 Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and 

 Ireland, Empress of India, and the undersigned, minister for foreign 

 affairs of His Majesty the King of the Netherlands, who is also 

 authorized to represent the Government of the King of Denmark on 

 this occasion, having met together at the office of the minister for 

 foreign affairs at the Hague on the 15th March, 1884, for the purpose 

 of depositing the instruments of ratification of the convention signed 

 at the Hague the 6th May, 1882, having for its object the regulation 

 of the police of the fisheries in the North Sea outside territorial 

 waters, and in order to sign the protocol relative to said deposition, 

 the envoy of France stated that, while adhering to the time agreed 

 upon for putting the convention into operation, the Government of 

 the Republic maintained the reserve contained in article 24 of the 

 law of the 15th January, 1884, thus worded : 



" The carrying into effect of the present law shall be provisionally 

 suspended up to the time on which the other signatory powers of the 

 convention of the 6th May, 1882, shall have promulgated the penal- 

 ties stipulated in Article XXXV of the convention." 



The other undersigned have stated to him that they take note of 

 this declaration. 



VON ALVENSLEBEN 



BARON D'ANETHAN 



(For the Government of Denmark). 



VAN DER DOES DE WILLEBOIS. 



Louis LEGRAND 



W. STUART 



VAN DER DOES DE WILLEBOIS. 



