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resolved to conclude for this purpose a convention, and have named 

 their plenipotentiaries as follows: — 



Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and 

 Ireland : the Hon. William Stuart, Companion of the Most Honorable 

 ''Order of the Bath, &c., her envoy extraordinary and minister plenipo- 

 tentiary at the Hague; Charles Malcolm Kennedy, esq., Companion of 

 the Most Honorable Order of the Bath, &c., head of the commercial 

 department of the foreign office ; and Charles Cecil Trevor, esq., barris- 

 ter at law, assistant secretary to the Board of Trade, &c. ; 



His Majesty the Emperor of Germany, King of Prussia: Yeit Eichard 

 von Schmidthals, Knight of the Order of the Eed Eagle of the third 

 class, and of the Order of St. John, &c., councilor of legation, his 

 charge d'affaires at the Hague; and Peter Christian Kinch Donner, 

 Knight of the Order of the Bed Eagle of the fourth class with the Sword, 

 and of the Crown of the fourth class, &c., his councilor of state, captain 

 in the navy, on the reserve ; 



His Majesty the King of the Belgians : the Baron d'Anethan, Comman- 

 der of the Order of Leopold, &c., his envoy extraordinary and minister 

 plenipotentiary at the Hague ; and M. Leopold Orban, Commander of 

 the Order of Leopold, &c,, bis envoy extraordinary and minister pleni- 

 potentiary, director-general of the political department in the ministry 

 of foreign affairs ; 



His Majesty the King of Denmark : Carl Adolph Bruun, Knight of 

 the Order of the Danebrog, &c., captain in the navy ; 



The President of the French Eepub lie : the Count Lefebvre de Behaine, 

 Commander of the National Order of the Legion of Honor, &c., envoy 

 extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of the French EepubUc at 

 the Hague ; and M. Gustave jEmile Mancel, Officer of the National 

 Order of the Legion of Honor, &c., commissary of marine ; 



His Majesty the King of the Netherlands : the Jonkheer Willem 

 Frederik Eochussen, Commander of the Order of the Lion of the Nether- 

 lands, &c., his minister of foreign affairs ; and Eduard Nicolaas Eahusen, 

 Knight of the Order of the Lion of the . Netherlands, &c., president of 

 the committee for sea fisheries; 



Who, after having communicated the one to the other their full j)owers, 

 found in good and due form, have agreed upon the following arti- 

 cles : — 



Article I. 



The provisions of the present convention, the object of which is to 

 regulate the police of the fisheries in the North Sea outside territorial 

 waters, shall apply to the subjects of the high contracting parties. 



Article II. 



The fishermen of each country shall enjoy the exclusive right of 

 fishery within the distance of 3 miles from low- water mark along the 



