84 COUNTER-CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 



(T.) — Panama. 



NOR ARE PANAMA LAWS, 



itid. The law of Panama next referred to applies, and is alleged 



to api)ly, only to pearl tislieries, as to the title or want of title 

 to wliicb, or their proximity to islands or coast, or whether 

 in inland waters, nothing is said. Nor is there anything to 

 show that the law in question applies to foreigners. 



THE AREA AFEECTED BY LAW REFERRED TO IS NOT 

 SHOWN BY EVIDENCE. 



United States The assertion in the United States Case as to the area 

 vou, it^lT"'^'^' affected by the law is unsupported by evidence; and it will 

 be observed that the Map of the Panama pearl fisheries in 

 the Appendix does not purport to come from the Panama 

 Government, but to be " prepared at the office of the United 

 States Coast and Geodetic Survey." From what materials 

 it Avas so prepared is not explained; and as it refers to a 

 Decree of 1890, and is not dated, it may be supposed to have 

 been made for exhibition to the Tribunal of Arbitration. " 



(U.) — Mexico. 



MEXICAN REGULATIONS ONLY APPLY TO TERRITORIAL 



WATERS. 



Ibid., p. 489. The facts stated with reference to these pearl fisheries are 



not verified by evidence. The Mexican Kegulations appear 



only to refer to " the waters of the Eepublic ; " and even then 



foreigners are admitted to the fisheries on complying with 



Ibid., pp. 491, certain Regulations as to registration and payment of ton- 



492. ' ' nag-e and lighthouse dues. 



■United States 97 It Is wortli obscrviug that, although Mexican leg- 



vou.Eote^on^p. Islatiou is adduccd in the United States Case as an 



*^2- example of the exercise of jurisdiction outside the 3-mile 



limit, yet in setting out the Regulations of 1874 in the 

 Appendix, tljose relating to the boundaries of the fishing 

 districts are omitted. 

 Appendix, vol. As showing that Great Britain has not consented to the 

 ^'^' ■ exercise of fishery jurisdiction by Mexico beyond the ordi- 



nary limit, reference may be made to the Treaty of the I'Tth 

 November, 3 888, between Great Britain and that country, 

 of which the last paragraph of Article IV is as follows: 



The two Contracting Parties agree to consider, as a limit of tlieir 

 territorial "waters on their resiiective coasts, the distance of 3 marine 

 leagues reckoned from the line of low- water mark. Nevertheless, this 

 stipulation shall have no effect, excepting in what may relate to the 

 observance and application of the Custom-house Regulations and the 

 measures for preventing snniggliug, and cannot he e.riended io other 

 qucisiioHn of civil and criminal j iirindivfion or of inter national maritime law. 



