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protection and preservation of the fur seal in, or habitually resorting to, the 
Bering Sea, the arbitrators shall then determine what concurrent regulations 
outside the jurisdictional limits of the 'espective Governments are necessary, 
and over what waters such regulations should extend, and to aid them in that 
determination the report of a joint commission to be appointed by the respec¬ 
tive Governments shall be laid before them, with such other evidence as either 
Government may submit. 
The High Contracting Paties furthermore agree to cooperate in securing the 
adhesion of other powers to such regulations. 
Article VIII. 
The. High Contracting Parties having found themselves unable to agree upon 
a reference which shall include the question of the liability of each for the 
injuries alleged to have been sustained by the other, or by its citizens, in con¬ 
nection with the claims presented and urged by it; and, being solicitous that 
this subordinate question should not interrupt or longer delay the submission 
and determination of the main questions, do agree that either may submit to 
the arbitrators any question of fact involved in said claim and ask for a finding 
thereon, the question of the liability of either Government upon the facts 
found to be the subject of further negotiation. 
Article IX. 
The High Contracting Parties having agreed to appoint two commissioners 
on the part of each Government to make the joint investigation and report con¬ 
templated in the preceding Article VII, and to include the terms of the said 
agreement in the present convention, to the end that the joint and several 
reports and recommendations of said commissioners may be in due form sub¬ 
mitted to the arbitrators should the contingency therefor arise, the said 
agreement is accordingly herein included as follows: 
Each Government shall appoint two commissioners to investigate conjointly 
with the commissioners of the other Government all the facts having relation to 
seal life in Bering Sea, and the measures necessary for its proper protection and 
preservation. 
The four commissioners shall, so far as they may be able to agree, make a joint 
report to each of the two Governments, and they shall also report, either jointly 
or severally, to each Government on any points upon which they may be unable 
to agree. 
These reports shall not be made public until they shall be submitted to the 
arbitrators, or it shall appear that the contingency of their being used bv the 
arbitrators can not arise. 
