SCHEDULE OF CLAIMS. FIRST SCHEDULE OF CLAIMS TO BE SUBMITTED TO ARBITRATION CLASS I.-Claims based on alleged denial in whole or in part of real property rights. Webster, Studer, R. E. Brown, Cayuga Indians, Rio Grande. Fijian Land Claims. Burt, Henry, Brower, Williams. CLASS II.-Claims based on the acts of the authorities of either Government in regard to the vessels of the nationals of the other Government, or for the alleged wrongful collection or receipt of customs duties or other charges by the authorities of either Government. AMERICAN. Fishing Claims. GROUP I. Against Newfoundland: Cunningham & Thompson (18 vessels)-Masconomo, Arbutus, Anglo-Saxon, Quickstep, Nourmahal, Puritan, Talisman, Norma, Norumbega, Aloha, Ingomar, Jennie B. Hodgdon, Arkona, Arethusa, Independence II, S. P. Willard, Corona, Saladin. Davis Bros. (10 vessels)-Oregon, Margaret, Theo. Roosevelt, L. M. Stanwood, Georgie Campbell, Blanche, Veda McKown, E. A. Perkins, Kearsarge, Lena & Maud. Wm. H. Parsons (12 vessels) — Corsair, Grace L. Fears, Argo, Lizzie Griffin, Independence, Independence II, Dreadnought, Robin Hood, Helen G. Wells, Colonial, Alice M. Parsons, Mildred V. Lee. Gorton-Pew Co. (37 vessels) — A. M. Parker, Priscilla Smith, BRITISH. Shipping Claims. Coquitlam, Favourite, Wanderer, Kate, Lord Nelson, Canadienne, Eastry, Lindisfarne, Newchwang, Sidra, Maroa, Thomas F. Bayard, Jessie, Peschawa. Canadian Claims for Refund of Hay Duties. Peter Anderson, Charles Arpin, Nathaniel Bachelder, Magloire, G. Blain, Toussaint Bourassa, continuing partner of Bourassa and Forrester; Pierre Bourgeois, William Burland & Company, Charles S. Rowe, surviving partner; Frederick Catudal; L. N. Charlebois, heir and assignee of Denis N. Charlebois; Joseph Couture; Wilfrid Dorais, heir of Louis T. Dorais; John and Francis Ewing, John Ewing, surviving partner; Joseph Jean Baptiste Gosselin, heirs of Joseph A. Lamoureux, deceased. Schedule of claims. Class I. Class II. AMERICAN-Continued. Fishing Claims-Continued. GROUP 1-Continued. Helen G. Wells, Ramona, Mas- W. H. Jordan (6 vessels) — Merchant (16 vessels)-Avalon, Constellation, O. W. Holmes, Golden Rod, Grayling, Joseph Rowe, Harvard, Mary E. Harty, Harriet W. Babson, Richard Wainwright, Henry M. Stanley, Lewis H. Giles, Lottie G. Merchant, Oriole, Clintonia, Esperanto. Jerome McDonald (3 vessels) Preceptor, Gladiator, Monitor. John Pew & Sons (5 vessels)A. E. Whyland, Essex, Columbia, Orinoco, Scepter. D. B. Smith & Co. (12 vessels)— Smuggler, Lucinda I. Lowell, Helen F. Whittier, Dora A. Lawson, Carrie W. Babson, Golden Hope, Fernwood, Sen. Gardner, Maxine Elliott, J. J. Flaherty, Tattler, Stranger. Sylvanus Smith & Co. (7 vessels)-Lucile, Bohemia, Claudia, Arcadia, Parthia, Arabia, Sylvania. John Chisolm (5 vessels)-Ad- Carl C. Young (3 vessels)— A. D. Mallock (3 vessels)-In- BRITISH-Continued. Canadian Claims for Refund of Hay Duties-Continued. AMERICAN-continued. Fishing Claims-Continued. GROUP 1-Continued. Stetson, A. V. S. Woodruff, M. J. Palson (3 vessels)-Barge Tillid, Schooner J. K. Manning, Tug Clarita. M. J. Dillon (1 vessel)-Edith Russell D. Terry (1 vessel). Lemuel E. Spinney (3 vessels)-American, Arbitrator, Dictator. Wm. H. Thomas (2 vessels) — Elmer E. Gray, Thos. L. Gorton. Frank H. Hall (3 vessels) — Ralph H. Hall, Sarah E. Lee, Faustina. M. Walen & Son (7 vessels) — Kentucky, Effie W. Prior, Orpheus, Hattie A. Heckman, Ella M. Goodsin, Bessie N. Devine, Arthur James. Atlantic Maritime Co. (7 vessels)-James W. Parker, Raynah, Susan & Mary, Elsie, Fannie E. Prescott, E. E. Gray, Mildred Robinson. Waldo I. Wonson (5 vessels) — American, Mystery, Procyon, Effie M. Morrissey, Marguerite. Edward Trevoy (1 vessel)-Edward Trevoy. Henry Atwood (1 vessel)-Fannie B. Atwood. Fred Thompson (1 vessel) — Elsie M. Smith. GROUP 2. Against Newfoundland: Bessie M. Wells, Elector, Sarah B. Putnam, A. E. Whyland. N. B. Parker, Thomas F. Bayard, Arethusa, Harry A. Nickerson, Arkona, Edna Wallace Hopper, Athlete. Fishing Claims. Against Canada : Frederick Gerring, North, D. J. Adams, R. T. Roy, Tattler, Hurricane, Argonaut, Jonas H. French. BRITISH-Continued. Canadian Claims for Refund of Hay Duties-Continued. Signatures. Ratifications exchanged. Proclama tion. 37 Stat. L., pt. 2, p. 1542. fications shall be exchanged in Washington as soon as practicable. IN FAITH WHEREOF the respective plenipotentiaries have signed this treaty in duplicate and have hereunto affixed their seals. DONE at Washington the seventh day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and eleven. PHILANDER C KNOX [SEAL.] [SEAL.] And whereas the said Treaty has been duly ratified on both parts, and the ratifications of the two governments were exchanged in the City of Washington, on the seventh day of July, one thousand nine hundred and eleven; Now, therefore, be it known that I, William Howard Taft, President of the United States of America, have caused said treaty to be made public, to the end that the same and every article and clause thereof may be observed and fulfilled with good faith by the United States and the citizens thereof. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the City of Washington this fourteenth day of December in the year of our Lord one thou[SEAL] sand nine hundred and eleven, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and thirty-sixth. By the President: PC KNOX Secretary of State. WM H TAFT July 7, 1911. Convention between the United States and other Powers providing for the preservation and protection of fur seals. Signed at Washington, July 7, 1911; ratification advised by the Senate, July 24, 1911; ratified by the President, November 24, 1911; ratified by Great Britain, August 25, 1911; ratified by Japan, NovemOctober 22, 1911, ber 6, 1911; ratified by Russia, November 4, 1911; ratifications exchanged at Washington, December 12, 1911; proclaimed, December 14, 1911. International protection of fur seals. Preamble. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. A PROCLAMATION. Whereas a Convention between the United States of America, Great Britain, Japan and Russia providing for the preservation and protection of the fur seals which frequent the waters of the North Pacific Ocean, was concluded and signed by their respective Plenipotentiaries at Washington, on the 7th day of July, one thousand nine hundred and eleven, the original of which Convention, being in the English language, is word for word as follows: The United States of America, His Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and of the British Dominions beyond the Seas, Emperor of India, His Majesty the Emperor of Japan, and His Majesty the Emperor of all the Russias, being desirous of adopting effective means for the preservation and protection of the fur seals which frequent the waters of the North Pacific Ocean, have resolved to conclude a Convention for the purpose, and to that end have named as their Plenipotentiaries: Contracting Powers. tiaries. The President of the United States of America, the PlenipotenHonorable Charles Nagel, Secretary of Commerce and Labor of the United States, and the Honorable Chandler P. Anderson, Counselor of the Department of State of the United States; His Britannic Majesty, the Right Honorable James Bryce, of the Order of Merit, his Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary at Washington, and Joseph Pope, Esquire, Commander of the Royal Victorian Order and Companion of the Order of St. Michael and St. George, Under Secretary of State of Canada for External Affairs; His Majesty the Emperor of Japan, Baron Yasuya Uchida, Jusammi, Grand Cordon of the Imperial Order of the Rising Sun, his Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary at Washington; and the Honorable Hitoshi Dauké, Shoshii, Third Class of the Imperial Order of the Rising Sun, Director of the Bureau of Fisheries, Department of Agriculture and Commerce; His Majesty the Emperor of all the Russias, the Honorable Pierre Botkine, Chamberlain of His Majesty's Court, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Morrocco, and Baron Boris Nolde, of the Foreign Office; Who, after having communicated to one another their respective full powers, which were found to be in due and proper form, have agreed upon the following articles: ARTICLE I. ing in North prohibited. The High Contracting Parties mutually and recipro- Pelagic sealcally agree that their citizens and subjects respectively, Pacific Ocean, and all persons subject to their laws and treaties, and etc. mutually their vessels, shall be prohibited, while this Convention remains in force, from engaging in pelagic sealing in the waters of the North Pacific Ocean, north of the thirtieth parallel of north latitude and including the Seas |