tous les anciens Traités et Conventions conclus entre la Russie et Japon cessent d'avoir force obligatoire; en même temps cesse la jur diction Russe dans ce pays et tous les droits de cette juridiction son acquis aux autorités judiciaires Japonaises. AGREEMENT between Greece and Bulgaria, on subject of Joint Stock Companies.-Signed at Athens, 1899. th March April 3, LE Gouvernement Princier de Bulgarie, et le Gouvernement Royal de Grèce, animés du désir de développer les rapports com merciaux entre leurs États respectifs, se réservant à cet effet d poursuivre incessamment la négociation d'un Traité complet et dé finitif de commerce, ont jugé utile de régler provisoirement et d'un manière réciproque la situation des Sociétés Anonymes, notammen des Sociétés d'Assurances. Dans ce but les Soussignés, en vert de l'autorisation qui leur a été conférée, sont convenus de ce qu suit: Les Sociétés Anonymes, et notamment les Sociétés d'Assurances, qui sont ou qui seront constituées et autorisées suivant les lois particulières des deux pays contractants, seront reconnues mutuellement en Bulgarie et en Grèce de manière que ces Sociétés puissent y exercer tous leurs droits sans autres conditions que de se conformer aux lois du pays. Le présent Arrangement entrera en vigueur un mois après signature, ou plus tôt si faire se peut, et il ne cessera d'être en vigueur qu'un an après la dénonciation qui en serait faite de part ou d'autre. Fait en double expédition. 3 Avril 1899. (L.S.) P. DIMITROFF. (L.S.) ALEXANDRE ZAÏMIS. ACCESSION of Sweden and Norway to the International Sanitary Convention signed at Paris, April 3, 1894,* and to the Additional Act of October 30, 1897.t—April 6, 1898. Sa Majesté le Roi de Suède et de Norvége désirant user de la faculté qui lui est réservée par l'Article VI de la Convention Sanitaire Internationale de Paris, après avoir eu communication de la dite Convention ainsi que la Déclaration Additionnelle du 30 Octobre, 1897, a résolu d'y accéder. Sa Majesté a nommé à cet effet pour Plénipotentiaire M. Due, son Envoyé Extraordinaire et Ministre Plénipotentiaire près le Gouvernement de la République Française, lequel après avoir déposé ses pleins pouvoirs trouvés en bonne et due forme a déclaré ce qui suit: Sa Majesté le Roi de Suède et de Norvége adhère à la Convention Internationale conclue à Paris, le 3 Avril, 1894, et à ses Annexes, ainsi qu'à la Déclaration Additionnelle signée le 30 Octobre, 1897, en s'engageant à concourir à leur application. Le Ministre des Affaires d'Étrangères de la République Française, M. Gabriel Hanotaux, prend acte au nom des Puissances Signataires des dits Actes précités de cette Déclaration d'Adhésion. En foi de quoi les Soussignés ont dressé le présent Acte, qu'ils ont revêtu de leurs cachets. Fait en double à Paris, le 6 Avril, 1898. (L.S.) G. HANOTAUX. (L.S.) FR. DUE. BRITISH NOTIFICATION respecting Sea Fisheries in the Territorial Waters of Iceland and the Faroe Islands.— London, October 1899.‡ THE Board of Trade hereby call the attention of the owners and skippers of British trawlers to the existing Laws respecting trawling, and the presence of fishing vessels with trawls on board, in the territorial waters of Iceland and the Faröe Islands. Translations of the Laws are annexed. With reference to the expression "stowed away on board" used, Vol. LXXXVII, page 78. + Vol. LXXXVII, page 81. "London Gazette," November 3, 1899. in relation to fishing gear, in both Laws, the Board of Trade hay ascertained that the Danish authorities are of opinion that, in ord to fulfil the legal requirements of the phrase it is necessary (1.) That the otter-boards of trawling gear should be stowed i their ordinary places on deck inside the bulwarks, or else that the should be put below deck; and (2.) That the nets should be unshackled from the boards an should be put away or made fast in-board, either on deck or belo deck and emptied of fish. Board of Trade, October 1899. T. H. W. PELHAM, Assistant Secretar Danish Law respecting the Prohibition of Fishing with Trawls withi the Territorial Waters of Iceland.-Amalienborg, April 6, 1898. (Translation.) WE, Christian IX, by the grace of God King of Denmark, &c. The Althing has adopted, and We have ratified with our consen the following Law : SEC. 1. Fishing by means of trawls is prohibited within th territorial waters of Iceland. 2. Breaches of Article 1 are punished by fines of 1,000 t 4,000 kroner, which go to the Icelandic Treasury, and all the fishin gear, including the drag-ropes, and all the catch on board shall b forfeited, and the proceeds thereof shall go to the Treasury. Th ship may be seized and sold, after legal execution, to cover the fin and expenses. 3. If a fishing-vessel is found within territorial waters with trawl on board, although not engaged in fishing, it renders itsel liable to a fine of from 200 to 2,000 kroner to the Treasury; shoul the same vessel be found a second time in territorial waters wit such gear on board, it will be treated according to Article 2. Thes penalties shall not, however, be enforced in the following cases :— (1.) When vessels are in distress, in which are included vessel seeking harbour on account of want of provisions or coal; (2.) When vessels are on their way to the fishing grounds o from one fishing ground to another through the passage between th Westmann Isles and the coast of Iceland, or between Reykjanes an the Fuglaskar Rocks, although within territorial limits, provided the do not stop. (3.) When vessels are considered to have entered territorial water unintentionally or in ignorance, owing to currents, or weather, or fo obscuring the land. When ships seek the land to obtain provisions or coal, or pursue the course described in (2) aforesaid, the above exceptions are only allowed if all the fishing gear is stowed away on board while the ship is in territorial waters. Home-owned (Icelandic or Danish) trawlers are at liberty to seek hand in order to discharge their fish, and to procure water and other necessaries under all circumstances, but their fishing gear must then also be stowed away. 4. Cases which arise out of breaches of this Law shall be treated as public police cases. 5. Laws No. 13 of the 9th August, 1889, and No. 24 of the 10th November, 1894, are repealed. To which all whom it may concern must conform. Given at Amalienborg, the 6th April, 1898. Danish Law concerning the Prohibition of Trawling in the Territorial Waters of the Faröe Islands.-February 1, 1899. Translation.) SEC. 1. Trawling is prohibited in the territorial waters of the Faroe Islands. 2. Breaches of section 1 are punished by fines of 1,000 to 4,000 kroner to the Treasury, and all the fishing implements, including the cables that draw the trawl, and all the catch on board shall be forfeited and sold on behalf of the Treasury. The confisented implements shall be made unfit for trawling. The ships may be arrested and sold, after legal execution, in payment of fines and expenses. 3. If a fishing-vessel is found inside territorial waters with a trawl on board, although not engaged in fishing, it is liable to fines of 200 to 2,000 kroner to the Treasury. If the same vessel is found a second time in the territorial waters with these implements on board it will be treated according to section 2. These penalties shall not, however, be enforced in the following cases : (1.) When vessels are in distress, which includes vessels that require to seek a harbour on account of the want of provisions or coal; (2.) When vessels are considered to have entered territorial waters unintentionally or in ignorance, owing to currents, or weather, or fog obscuring the land; (3.) When vessels on the way to the fishing grounds, or going from one fishing ground to another, pass the straits between the Islands without stopping. The exceptions in favour of ships referred to in paragraph 3 of * Vol. LXXXVII, page 491. this section and of ships seeking the land to obtain provisions coal, are only allowed on the condition that all the fishing gear stowed away on board while the ship is in territorial waters. Home-owned (belonging to the Faröe Islands or Danish) trawle are always at liberty to seek the land in order to discharge their fi and to procure water and other necessaries, but their fishing impl ments must then also be stowed away on board. 4. Cases which arise out of breaches of this Law shall treated as public police actions. 5. This Law shall come into force the 1st February, 1899. AWARD of the Tribunal of Arbitration constituted und Article I of the Treaty of Arbitration signed at Washingto on the 2nd February, 1897, between Great Britain and t United States of Venezuela, regarding the Boundary betwe the Colony of British Guiana and the United States of Ven zuela.-Paris, October 3, 1899. WHEREAS, on the 2nd day of February, 1897, a Treaty of Arb tration was concluded between Her Majesty the Queen of the Unite Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the United States Venezuela in the terms following: [See Vol. LXXXIX, page 57.] And whereas the said Treaty was duly ratified, and the ratific tions were duly exchanged in Washington on the 14th day of Jun 1897, in conformity with the said Treaty; And whereas since the date of the said Treaty, and before th arbitration thereby contemplated had been entered upon, the sai Right Honourable Baron Herschell departed this life; And whereas the Right Honourable Charles Baron Russell Killowen, Lord Chief Justice of England, Knight Grand Cross the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, ha conformably to the terms of the said Treaty, been duly nominate by the members of the Judicial Committee of Her Majesty's Priv Council to act under the said Treaty in the place and stead of th said late Baron Herschell; And whereas the said four Arbitrators, namely: the said Righ Honourable Lord Russell of Killowen, the Right Honourable Si Richard Henn Collins, the Honourable Melville Weston Fuller, an the Honourable David Josiah Brewer, have, conformably to th terms of the said Treaty, selected his Excellency Frederic d |