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Russian-Japanese Fisheries Convention of July 15 (28), 1907

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 May 2017

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Editorial Comment
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 1908 

References

1 For the text of this article see U. S. For. Rel., 1905, 826.

The text of the fisheries convention of 1907 is contained in the current number of the Supplement of this Journal.

2 Article I.

3 See Article I of protocol.

4 Id.

5 See case of The Alleganean, Second Court of Commissioners of Alabama Claims, Stetson v. United States, No. 3993, Class I; Moore, Inter. Arbitrations, IV, 4332–4341.

Compare Direct United States Cable Company v. Anglo-American Tel. Co. (1877), L. R. 2 App. Cases, 394; Reg. v. Cunningham, Bell’s C. C, 72; Mortensen v. Peters, 8 Fraser, 93.

6 Article II.

7 Id.

8 Article III.

9 Article VI.

10 Reciprocal declarations, Article II.

11 Article IV.

12 Article V.

13 Article IX, and Article IV of protocol.

14 Article XII.

15 Article XI of protocol.

16 Id.

17 Reciprocal declarations, Article V.

18 Article XIII.

19 Article VIII of protocol.

Provision is made that in case a lease shall not have expired at the expiration of the treaty, the former shall remain valid until the end of the term, irrespective of the decision of the High Contracting Parties as to the convention itself (Article IX of protocol).

20 In this respect the rights acquired by Japan contrast sharply with those which, by the provisions of Article I of the treaty of October 20, 1818, between the United States and Great Britain, are declared to belong to American citizens.