04 ALASKA. 
The said concurrent regulations shall be submitted every five years to a new 
examination, so as to enable both interested Governments to consider whether, 
in the light of past experience, there is occasion for any modification thereof. 
And whereas the Government of Her Britannic Majesty did submit to the 
Tribunal of Arbitration by Article VIII of the said treaty certain questions of 
fact involved in the claims referred to in the said Article V III, and did also 
submit to us, the said tribunal, a statement of the said facts, as follows, that 
is to say: 
“ Findings of fact proposed by the Agent of Great Britain and agreed to as 
proved by the Agent for the United States, and submitted to the Tribunal of 
Arbitration for its consideration. 
“ 1. That the several searches and seizures, whether of ships or goods, and 
the several arrests of masters and crews, respectively mentioned in the Schedule 
to the British Case, pages l to 60, inclusive, were made by the authority of the 
United States Government. The questions as to the value of the said vessels 
or their contents, or either of them, and the question as to whether the vessels 
mentioned in the Schedule to the British Case, or any of them, were wholly or 
in part the actual property of citizens of the United States, have been with¬ 
drawn from and have not been considered by the tribunal, it being understood 
that it is open to the United States to raise these questions, or any of them, if 
they think fit, in any future negotiations as to the liability of the United States 
Government to pay the amounts mentioned in the Schedule to the British Case; 
“ 2. That the seizures aforesaid, with the exception of the “ Pathfinder ” 
seized at Neah Bay, were made in Bering Sea at the distances from shore men¬ 
tioned in the Schedule annexed hereto marked C; 
“3. That the said several searches and seizures of vessels were made by 
public armed vessels of the United States, the commanders of which had, at 
the several times when they were made, from the Executive Department of the 
Government of the United States, instructions, a copy of one of which is 
annexed hereto, marked A, and that the others were, in all substantial respects, 
the same; that in all the instances in which proceedings were had in the district 
courts of the United States resulting in condemnation, such proceedings were 
begun by the filing of libels, a copy of one of which is annexed hereto, marked 
B, and that the libels in the other proceedings were in all substantial respects 
the same; that the alleged acts or offences for which said several searches and 
seizures were made were in each case done or committed in Berine Sea at the 
distances from shore aforesaid; and that in each case in which sentence of con¬ 
demnation was passed, except in those cases when the vessels were released after 
