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"Failing an agreement on this question within thirty days, the Com- 

 mission shall so notify the Government of Great Britain in order that 

 the further action required by that award shall be taken for the de- 

 cision of the above question. 



"The provision is as follows " 



7. The unanimous decision of the two national Commissioners, or the 

 majority decision of the Umpire and one Commissioner, shall be final 

 and binding. 



8. Any difference in regard to the regulations specified in Protocol 

 XXX of the arbitration proceedings, which shall not have been dis- 

 posed of by diplomatic methods, shall be referred not to the Commis- 

 sion of expert specialists mentioned in the award but to the Permanent 

 Mixed Fishery Commissions, to be constituted as hereinbefore pro- 

 vided, in the same manner as a difference in regard to future regula- 

 tions would be so referred. 



Article II 



And whereas the Tribunal of Arbitration in its award decided 

 that— 



"In case of bays the ?> marine miles are to be measured from a 

 straight line drawn across the body of water at the place where 

 it ceases to have the configuration and characteristics of a bay. 

 At all other places the 3 marine miles are to be measured follow- 

 ing the sinuosities of the coast.'- 

 And whereas the Tribunal made certain recommendations for the 

 determination of the limits of the bays enumerated in the award; 



Now, therefore, it is agreed that the recommendations, in so far as 

 the same relate to bays contiguous to the territory of the Dominion 

 of Canada, to which Question V of the Special Agreement is applica- 

 ble, are hereby adopted, to wit : 



"In every bay not hereinafter specifically provided for, the 

 limits of exclusion shall be drawn three miles seaward from a 

 straight line across the bay in the part nearest the entrance at 

 the first point where the width does not exceed ten miles. 



"For the Bale des Chaleurs the limits of exclusion shall be 

 drawn from the line from the Light at Birch Point on Miscou 

 Island to Macquereau Point Light ; for the bay of Miramichi, 

 the line from the Light at Point Eseuminac to the Light on the 

 eastern point of Tabisintac Gully; for Egmont Bay, in Prince 

 Edward Island, the line from the Light at Cape Egmont to the 

 Light at West Point ; and off St. Ann's Bay, in the Province of 

 Nova Scotia, the line from the Light at Point Anconi to the 

 nearest point on the opposite shore of the mainland. 



"For or near the following bays the limits of exclusion shall be 

 three marine miles seawards from the following lines, namely : 



"For or near Barrington Bay, in Nova Scotia, the line from the 

 Light on Sloddard Island to the Light on the south point of 

 Cape Sable, thence to the Light at Baccaro Point ; at Chedabucto 

 and St. Peter's Bays, the line from Cranberry Island Light to 

 Green Island Light, thence to Point Kouge; for Mira Bay, the 

 line from the Light on the east point of Scatary Island to the 

 northeasterly point of Cape Morien. 



