978 APPENDIX TO CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 
ARTICLE XI. 
The decision of the Tribunal shall, if possible, be made within three months from 
the close of the argument on both sides, 
It shall be made in writing and dated, and shall be signed by the Arbitrators who 
may assent to it. 
The decision shall be in duplicate, one copy whereof shall be delivered to the 
Agent of Great Britain for his Government, and the other copy shall be delivered to 
the Agent of the United States for his Government. 
ARTICLE XII. 
Each Government shall pay its own Agent, and provide for the proper remunera- 
tion of the Counsel employed by it and of the Arbitrators appointed by it, und for 
the expense of preparing and submitting its case to the Tribunal. All other 
expenses connected with the arbitration shall be defrayed by the two Governments 
in equal moieties. 
6 ARTICLE XIII. 
The Arbitrators shall keep an accurate record of their proceedings, and may 
appoint and employ the necessary officers to assist them. 
ARTICLE XIV. 
The High Contracting Parties engage to consider the result of the proceedings 
of the Tribunal of Arbitration as a full, perfect, and final settlement of all the 
questions referred to the Arbitrators. 
ARTICLE XV. 
The present Treaty shall be duly ratified by Her Britannic Majesty and by the 
President of the United States of America, by and with the advice and consent of 
the Senate thereof; and the ratifications shall be exchanged either at Washington 
or at London within six months from the date hereof, or earlier if possible. 
In faith whereof, we, the respective Plenipotentiaries, have signed this Treaty, 
and have hereunto affixed our seals. 
Done in duplicate, at Washington, the 29th day of February, 1892. 
[L. 8.] JULIAN PAUNCEFOTE. 
[L. 8.] JAMES G. BLAINE. 
No. 2. 
CONVENTION BETWEEN GREAT BRITAIN AND THE UNITED STATES 
oF AMERICA. Mopus VIVENDI IN BEHRING’S SEA. 
Signed at Washington, April 18, 1892. 
[Ratifications exchanged at London, May 7, 1892.] 
Whereas, by a Convention concluded between Her Majesty the Queen 
of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the United 
States of America on the 29th day of February, 1892, the High Con- 
tracting Parties have agreed to submit to arbitration, as therein stated, 
the questions which have arisen between them concerning the jurisdic- 
tional rights of the United States in the waters of Behring’s Sea, and 
concerning also the preservation of the fur-seal in, or habitually resort- 
ing to, the said sea, and the rights of the subjects and citizens of 
7 either country as regards the taking of fur-seal in, or habitually 
resorting to, the said waters; and whereas the High Contracting 
Parties, having differed as to what restrictive regulations for seal 
hunting are necessary during the pendency of such arbitration, have 
