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Who, having communicated to each other their respective full 

 powers, which were found to be in due and proper form, have agreed 

 to and concluded the following articles : 



Article I 



Whereas the award of the Hague Tribunal of September 7, 1910, 

 recommended for the consideration of the Parties certain rules and 

 a method of procedure under which all questions which may arise 

 in the future regarding the exercise of the liberties referred to in 

 Article I of the Treaty of October 20, 1818, may be determined in 

 accordance with the principles laid down in the award, and the Parties 

 having agreed to make certain modifications therein, the rules and 

 method of procedure so modified are hereby accepted by the Parties 

 in the following form : 



1. All future municipal laws, ordinances, or rules for the regulation 

 of the fisheries by Great Britain, Canada, or Newfoundland in respect 

 of (1) the hours, days, or seasons when fish may be taken on the 

 treaty coasts; (2) the method, means, and implements used in the 

 taking of fish or in carrying on fishing operations; (3) any other 

 regulations of a similar character; and all alterations or. amend- 

 ments of such laws, ordinances, or rules shall be promulgated and 

 come into operation within the first fifteen days of November in 

 each year; provided, however, in so far as any such law, ordinance, 

 or rule shall apply to a fishery conducted between the 1st day of 

 November and the 1st day of February, the same shall be promul- 

 gated at least six months before the 1st clay of November in each year. 



Such laws, ordinances, or rules by Great Britain shall be pro- 

 mulgated by publication in the London Gazette, by Canada in the 

 Canada Gazette, and by Newfoundland in the Newfoundland Gazette. 



After the expiration of ten years from the date of this Agreement, 

 and so on at intervals of ten years thereafter, either Party may pro- 

 I)ose to the other that the dates fixed for promulgation be revised 

 in consequence of the varying conditions due to changes in the habits 

 of the fish or other natural causes ; and if there shall be a difference 

 of opinion as to whether the conditions have so varied as to render 

 a revision desirable, such difference shall be referred for decision to a 

 commission possessing expert knowledge, such as the Permanent 

 Mixed Fishery Commission hereinafter mentioned. 



2. If the Government of the United States considers any such laws 

 or regulations inconsistent with the Treaty of 1818, it is entitled so 

 to notify the Government of Great Britain within forty-five days 

 after the publication above referred to, and may require that the 

 same be submitted to and their reasonableness, within the meaning 

 of the award, be determined by the Permanent Mixed Fishery Com- 

 mission constituted as hereinafter provided. 



3. Any law or regulation not so notified within the said period of 

 forty-five days, or which, having been so notified, has been declared 

 reasonable and consistent with the Treaty of 1818 (as interpreted by 

 the said award) by the Permanent Mixed Fishery Commission, shall 

 be held to be reasonable within the meaning of the award; but if 

 declared by the said Commission to be unreasonable and inconsistent 



