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Ocean and Bering Sea wliicli are nortli of the tliirty-fiftli parallel of north latitude 

 and east of the one hundred and eightieth meridian of longitude from Greenwich. 



Art. 3. Every vessel or person offending against these regulations may be seized 

 and detained by the naval or duly commissioned officers of eitiier the United States 

 or Great Bi-itain, but they shall be handed over as soon as practicable to tlie author- 

 ities of the nation to which they respectively belong, who alone shall have jurisdic- 

 tion to try the offense and impose penalties for the same. The witnesses and proot 

 necessary to establish the offense or to dis^irove the same found on the vessel shall 

 also be sent with them. 



Art. 4. Every person guilty of violating those regulations shall, for each oftense, 

 be lined not less than $200 nor more than $1,000, or imprisoned not more than six 

 montlis, or both; and vessels, their tackle, apparel, I'urniture, and cargo found 

 engaged in violating these regulations shall lie forfeited and condemned. 



Sir John Thompson submitted the following draft: 



Article 1. No sealing except by licenses, which are to be issued at two United 

 States and two Canadian ports on the Pacific Coast. 



These lieenses to be granted only to sailing vessels, and not to be graiited earlier 

 than a date that would correspond with the 1st of May in the latitude of Vic- 

 toria, B. C. 



Art. 2. Each vessel carrying such license to use a distinctive flag and to keep a 

 record in the official log of the number of seals killed or wonnded, and the locality 

 in which the hunting takes place, from day to day, all such entries to be filed with 

 the collectors of customs on the return of the vessels. 



Art. 3. The use of rifles and nets in seal fishing is prohibited. 



Art. 4. The killing of seals to be prohibited within a zone of 30 miles from the 

 Pribilof Islands, and within a zone of 10 miles around the Aleutian Islands. 



Art. 5. The killing of seals to be prohibited in Bering Sea (east of the line of 

 demarcation adojited in the treaty of cession irom Russia to the United States) 

 before the 1st of July and after the 1st of October in each year. 



Art. 6. The foregoing regulations shall be brought into force from and after a day 

 to be agreed upon by Great Britain and the United States, aoid shall continue in 

 operation for ten years from the above day; and, unless Great Britain ov tlie United 

 States shall, twelve months before the expiration of the said jieriod of ten years, 

 give notice of intention to terminate their operation, shall continne in force one 

 year longer, and so on from year to year. 



Senator Morgan submitted the following paper: 



I adhere to the position taken by the United States, that pelagic sealing shonld 

 be prohibited north of 35 degrees north latitude, and in order to nnule no interfer- 

 ence with any (]uestion that may concern the substantial interest of Russia east of 

 180 degrees longitude from Greenwich. 



I believe that this is the only really effective method of protecting and preserving 

 these seals; but, if the Tribunal shall jirefer the plan of iirotectionaud preservation 

 that has for its basis a close season, I respectfully insist that the use of firearms and 

 explosives in such hunting should be prohibited under effective penalties, as well 

 for the neeessai'y protection and preservation of the seals as for the protection of 

 human life and the iireservation of peace; for joint hunting, or the hunting in a com- 

 mon right and in the same waters, of these valuable animals will produce conflicts 

 and bloodshed, and may rcsnlt in international conflict once the use of firearms is 

 sanctioned by the laws that are to l)e enacted by these two Governments to carry the 

 award of the Tribunal into eflect. There is no possible restraint or limit that can 

 be placed on their destructive use; this is a doom of the seals; that is as certain as 

 that the genius of man, in killing the seals, is almost infinitely snjjerior to the 

 instinct of self-preservation in the seal, and to its capacity to escape the pursuit of 



