64 ALASKA. 



The said concurrent regulations shall be submitted every five years to a new 

 examination, so as to enable both interested Governments to consider whether, 

 in the light of past experience, there is occasion for any modification thereof 



And whereas the Government of Her Britannic Majesty did submit to the 

 Tribunal of Arbitration by Article VIII of the said treaty certain questions of 

 fact involved in the claims referred to in the said Article VIII, and did also 

 submit to us, the said tribunal, a statement of the said facts, as follows, that 

 is to say: 



" Findings of fact proposed by the Agent of Great Britain and agreed to as 

 proved by the Agent for the United States, and submitted to the Tribunal of 

 Arbitration for its consideration. 



" 1. That the several searches and seizures, whether of ships or goods, and 

 the several arrests of masters and crews, respectively mentioned in the Schedule 

 to the British Case, pages 1 to 60, inclusive, were made by the authority of the 

 United States Government. The questions as to the value of the said vessels 

 or their contents, or either of them, and the question as to whether the vessels 

 mentioned in the Schedule to the British Case, or any of them, were wholly or 

 in part the actual property of citizens of the United States, have been with- 

 drawn from and have not been considered by the tribunal, it being understood 

 that it is open to the United States to raise these questions, or any of them, if 

 they think fit, in any future negotiations as to the liability of the United States 

 Government to pay the amounts mentioned in the Schedule to the British Case; 



"2. That the seizures aforesaid, with the exception of the "Pathfinder" 

 seized at Neah Bay, were made in Bering Sea at the distances from shore men- 

 tioned in the Schedule annexed hereto marked C; 



" 3. That the said several searches and seizures of vessels were made by 

 public armed vessels of the United States, the commanders of which had, at 

 the several times when they were made, from the Executive Department of the 

 Government of the United States, instructions, a copy of one of which is 

 annexed hereto, marked A, and that the others were, in all substantial respects, 

 the same; that in all the instances in which proceedings were had in the district 

 courts of the United States resulting in condemnation, such proceedings were 

 begun by the filing of libels, a copy of one of which is annexed hereto, marked 

 B, and that the libels in the other proceedings were in all substantial respects 

 the same; that the alleged acts or offences for which said several searches and 

 seizures were made were in each case done or committed in Bering, Sea at the 

 distances from shore aforesaid; and that in each case in which sentence of con- 

 demnation was passed, except in those cases when the vessels were released after 



