80 AWARD AND DECLARATIONS. 



Article G. 



TIio use of nets, flreiirms, and explosives shall be forbidden in the 

 Inr seal iishin^-. Tliis restiiction shall not apply to shotguns when 

 such fishing takes place outside of Bering's Sea, during the season wiien 

 it may be lawiully carried on. 



Article 7. 



The two (lovernnients shall take measures to control the fitness of 

 the men authorized to engage in fur seal fishing; tliese men shall have 

 been j^roved tit to haiidh3 with sutlicicnt skill the weapons by means of 

 which this (ishing may be carried on. 



Article 8. 



The regulations contained in the preceding articles shall not apply 

 to Indians dwelling on the coasts of the territory of the United iStates 

 or of Great Britain and carrying on fur seal fishing in canoes or 

 undecked boats not transported by or used in connection with other 

 vessels and propelled wholly by paddles, oars, or sails, and manned by 

 not more than five persons each, in the way hitherto practiced by the 

 Indians, provided such Indians are not in the employment of other 

 persons, and provided that, when so hunting in canoes or undecked 

 boats, they shall not hunt fur seals outside of territorial waters under 

 contract for the delivoy of the skins to any person. 



This exemption shall not be construed to affect the nninicipal law of 

 either country, nor sliall it extend to the waters «f Bering yea or the 

 waters of the Aleutian Passes. 



Xothing herein contained is intended to interfere with the emi)loy- 

 ment of Indians as hunters or otherwise in connection with fur sealing 

 vessels as heretofore. 



Article 9. 



The concurrent regulations hereby determined with a view to the 

 protection and i)reservation of the fur seals shall remain in force untd 

 they have been, in whole or in part, abolished or modified by common 

 agreement between the Governments of the United States and ot 

 Great Britain. 



The said concurrent regulations shall be submitted every five years 

 to a new examiinition, so as to enable both interested Governments to 

 consider whether, in the light of past experience, there is occasion for 

 any nu)dification 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 

 VIII, and did also submit to ns, the said Tribunalj s^ statement of the 

 said facts, as follows, that is to say ; 



