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for shelter, repairs, wood, or water, and for no other purpose what- 

 ever, but that they shall be under such restrictions as may be necessary 

 to prevent their taking, drying, or curing fish therein or in any other 

 manner whatever abusing the privileges thereby resei-ved to them, is it 

 permissible to impose restrictions making the exercise of such privil- 

 eges conditional upon the payment of light or harbour or other dues, 

 or entering or reporting at custom-houses or any similar conditions? 



Question 5. From where must be measured the '3 marine miles 

 of any of the coasts, bays, creeks, or harbours' referred to in the said 

 article? 



Question 6. Have the inhabitants of the United States the liberty 

 under the said article or otherwise to take fish in the bays, harbours, 

 and creeks on that part of the southern coast of Newfoundland which 

 extends from Cape Ray to Rameau Islands, or on the western and 

 northern coasts of Newfoundland from Cape Ray to Quirpon Islands, 

 or on the Magdalen Islands? 



Question 7. Are the inhabitants of the United States whose vessels 

 resort to the treaty coasts for the purpose of exercising the liberties re- 

 ferred to in Article I of the treaty of 1818 entitled to have for those 

 vessels, when duly authorized by the United States in that behalf, the 

 commercial privileges on the treaty coasts accorded by agreement or 

 otherwise to United States trading vessels generally? 



ARTICLE 2 



Either party may call the attention of the tribunal to any legislative 

 or executive act of the other party, specified within three months of 

 the exchange of notes enforcing this agreement, 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 3 



If any question arises in the arbitration i-egarding the reasonable- 

 ness of any regrulation or otherwise which requires an examination or 

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

 rounding the exercise of the liberty of fishery enjoyed by the inhabitants 

 of the United States, or which requires expert information 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 de- 

 signated by each of the parties hereto and the third, who shall not be a 



