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fiEGULATIONS PROPOSED BY MR. JUSTICE HARLAIV, CONCURRED IN BY SENATOR MORGAN. 



Article 1. No citizen or subject of the United States or Great Britain sliall in any 

 manner kill, capture, or pursue anj'wliere upon the seas, within the limits and 

 boundaries next liereiuafter prescribed for the operation of this regulation, any of 

 the animals commonly called fur seals. 



Art. 2. The foregoing regulation shall apply to and extend over all those waters, 

 outside the jurisdictional limits of the above-mentioned nations, of the North Pa- 

 cific Ocean and Bering Sea which are North of the thirty-fifth parallel of north lati- 

 tude and east of the one hundred and eightieth meridian of longitude from Green- 

 wich. 



Art. 3. Everj"^ vessel or person offending against these regulations may be seized 

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

 orGreat Britaiu, but they shall be handed over as soon as practicable to the authori- 

 ties 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 proof 

 necessary to establish the otieuse or to disprove the same found on the vessel shall' 

 also be sent with them. 



Art. 4. Every person guilty of violating these regulations shall, for each offense, 

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

 months, or both; and vessels, their tackle, apparel, furniture, and cargo, found en- 

 gaged in violating these regulations shall be forfeited and condemned. 



REGULATIONS PROPOSED BY SIR JOHN THOMPSON. 



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 licenses to be granted only to sailing vessels, and not to be granted earlier 

 than a date that would correspond with the 1st of May in the latitude of Victoria, 

 British Columbia. 



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 wounded, and the locality 

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

 the collectors of customs on the return of the vessels. 



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



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

 Pribylov 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 adopted in the treaty of cession from Eussia to the United States) before 

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



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

 to be agreed upon by Great Britian and the United' States, and shall continue in 

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

 States shall, twelve months before the expiration of the said period of ten years, gi ve 

 notice of intention to terminate their operation, shall coutinuo iu force one year 

 longer, and so on from year to year. 



