28 NORTH ATLANTIC COAST FISHERIES ARBITRATION. 



behalf, the commercial privileges on the treaty coasts accorded by 

 agreement or otherwise to United States trading- vessels generally ? 



Ajrticle IL 



Either Party may call the attention of the Tribunal to any legis- 

 lative or executive act of the other Party, specified within 

 8 three months of the exchange of notes enforcing this agree- 



ment, and which is claimed to be inconsistent with the true 

 interpretation of the Treaty of 1818 ; and may call upon the Tribunal 

 to express in its award its opinion upon such acts, and to point out 

 in what respects, if any, they are inconsistent with the principles 

 laid down in the award in reply to the preceding questions ; and each 

 Party agrees to conform to such opinion. 



Article IIL 



If any question arises in the arbitration regarding the reasonable- 

 ness of any regulation or otherwise which requires an examination 

 of the practical effect of any provisions in relation to the conditions 

 surrounding the exercise of the liberty of fishery enjoyed by the 

 inhabitants of the United States, or which requires expert informa- 

 tion about the fisheries themselves, the Tribunal may, in that case, 

 refer such question to a Commission of three expert specialists in 

 such matters ; one to be designated by each of the Parties hereto, and 

 the third, who shall not be a national of either Party, to be designated 

 by the Tribunal. This Commission shall examine into and report 

 their conclusions on any question or questions so referred to it by the 

 Tribunal and such report shall be considered by the Tribunal and 

 shall, if incorporated by them in the award, be accepted as a part 

 thereof. 



Pending the report of the Commission upon the question or ques- 

 tions so referred and without awaiting such report, the Tribunal 

 may make a separate award upon all or any other questions before it, 

 and such separate award, if made, shall become immediately effective, 

 provided that the report aforesaid shall not be incorporated in the 

 award until it has been considered by the Tribunal. The expenses 

 of such Commission shall be borne in equal moieties by the Parties 

 hereto. 



Article IV. 



The Tribunal shall recommend for the consideration of the High 

 Contracting Parties rules and a method of procedure under which all 

 questions which may arise in the future regarding the exercise of the 

 liberties above referred to may be determined in accordance with the 

 principles laid down in the award. If the High Contracting Parties 



