108 NOETH ATLANTIC COAST FISHERIES AEBITEATION. 



man Confederation, the following notice is issued for the guidance 

 and warning of British fishermen : — 



" 1. The exchisive fishery limits of the German Empire are desig- 

 nated by the Imperial Government as follows: That tract of the sea 

 which extends to a distance of 3 sea miles from the extremest limits 

 which the ebb leaves dry of the German North Sea Coast of the Ger- 

 man islands or flats lying before it, as well as those bays and in- 

 curvations of the coast which are ten sea miles or less in breadth 

 reckoned from the extremest points of the land and the flats, must 

 be considered as under the territorial sovereignty of North Germany." 

 (Hertslet's Treaties, vol. xiv, p. 1055.) 



131 Great Britain and German Empire. British Board of 



Trade, December 1874. 



(Same recital referring to an arrangement entered into between 

 Her Britannic Majesty and the German Government.) 



Then the same articles follow with the alteration of the words 

 " German Empire " for " North Germany." (Hertslet, vol. xiv, p. 

 1058.) 



Treaty between Great Britain, Belgium, Denmark, France, Ger- 

 many and the Netherlands for regulating the police of the North Sea 

 Fisheries, May 6, 1882 :— 



" 2. Les pecheurs nationaux jouiront du droit exclusif de peche 

 dans le rayon de 3 milles, a partir de la laisse de basse mer, le long de 

 toute I'etendue des cotes de leurs pays respectifs, ainsi que des iles et 

 des bancs qui en dependent. 



'• Pour les baies le rayon de 3 milles sera mesnre a partir d'une 

 ligiie droite. tiree, en travers de la baie. dans la partie la plus rap- 

 prochee de I'entree, au premier point ou I'ouverture n'excedera pas 10 

 milles." (Hertslet, vol. xv, p. 791.) 



British Order-in-Council, October 23, 1877:— 



Prescribes the obligation of not concealing or effacing numbers or 

 marks on boats, employed in fishing or dredging for purposes of sale 

 on the coasts of England, Wales, Scotland and the Islands of Guern- 

 sey, Jersey, Alderney, Sark and Man, and not going outside — 



"(a.) The distance of 3 miles from low-water mark along the ^Yhole extent of 

 the said coasts; 



•'(6.) In cases of bays less than 10 miles wide the line joining the headlands 

 of said bays." (Hertslet, vol. xiv, p. 1032.) 



To this list may be added the unratified treaty of 1888 between 

 Great Britain and the United States, which is so familiar to the 

 Tribunal. Such unratified treaty contains an authoritative interpre- 

 tation of the convention of October 20tb, 1818, sub judice: "The 3 

 marine miles mentioned in article 1 of the convention of October 20th, 

 1818, shall be measured seaward from low-water mark; but at every 

 bay, creek or harbour, not otherwise specifically provided for in this 

 treaty, such three marine miles shall be measured seaward from a 



