406 NEW ENGLAND FISHERIES 



But in response to a request from the Tribunal, recorded 

 in Protocol No. XXVI of 19th July, for an exposition of 

 the grounds of such objections, the Parties replied as re- 

 ported in Protocol No. XXX of 28th July to the following 

 effect : 



His Majesty's Government considered that it would be 

 unnecessary to call upon the Tribunal for an opinion under 

 the second clause of Article II, in regard to the executive 

 act of the United States of America in sending warships 

 to the territorial waters in question, in view of the rec- 

 ognized motives of the United States of America in taking 

 this action and of the relations maintained by their repre- 

 sentatives with the local authorities. And this being the 

 sole act to which the attention of this Tribunal has been 

 called by His Majesty's Government, no further action in 

 their behalf is required from this Tribunal under Arti- 

 cle II. 



The United States of America presented a statement in 

 which their claim that specific provisions of certain legis- 

 lative and executive acts of the Governments of Canada 

 and Newfoundland were inconsistent with the true in^er- 

 pretation of the Treaty of 1818 was based on the conten- 

 tion that these provisions were not " reasonable " within 

 the meaning of Question I. 



After calling upon this Tribunal to express an opinion 

 on these acts, pursuant to the second clause of Article II, 

 the United States of America pointed out in that state- 

 ment that under Article III any question regarding the 

 reasonableness of any regulation might be referred by the 

 Tribunal to a Commission of expert specialists, and ex- 

 pressed an intention of asking for such reference under 

 certain circumstances. 



The Tribunal having carefully considered the counter- 

 statement presented on behalf of Great Britain at the ses- 

 sion of August 2nd, is of opinion that the decision on the 



